While putting together an upscale meal for his final cooking project in culinary class, at what point in the meal would it make the most sense for Thomas to introduce a palate cleanser?

To create an illustration of perspective, this artist did all of the following except 1) show clear orthogonal lines 2) have an implied vanishing point 3) distort proportion to keep the background and foreground the same size 4) include value changes between the foreground and background i was thinking maybe 1