THE REAL WORLD

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Chefs usually spend a lot of time making food look—not just taste—good, but what if you (1) ________ food without seeing it first?

Dark dining is a different way to eat food. It happens in a dark restaurant and you do not (2) ________ the food you eat. You choose the type of meal— vegetarian, fish, meat, or a mixture—and guess the foods after the meal.

One restaurant, Dans Le Noir, describes how dark dining is different. The main idea is that when you can't see the food, our other four (3) ________ — taste, smell, touch, and hearing—increase. In Dans Le Noir, you sit at a long (4) ________, but don’t see who you sit next to. This means getting to know people in an unusual way—in the dark. Many dark dining restaurants also support people with (5) ________ problems. People who are blindor have lost a lot of their sight often work in these restaurants.

The first dark dining restaurant opened in 1999 in Zurich, Switzerland. Now, dark dining is (6) ________ around the world. There are restaurants in many places, such as London, New York, Barcelona, Seoul, and Singapore.