I was fairly excited. Once I arrived, however, I realized that this is one of the more grotesque celebrations of consumption (both literal and figurative) that I’ve ever attended. If you don’t like the mall, don’t plan on spending long at the Taste. If you don’t like watching unhealthy people eat expensive samples of dozens of different styles of food from all over the country, don’t go. If, on the other hand, you can manage to ignore all the people around you and you know how to stay cool on hot days in big crowds and you like food a lot, by all means, get your Taste on!