Tasting is believing

If you were eating with a blindfold on, could you identify the flavors of seared tuna with watermelon, onion, and tarragon? How about chocolate mousse with crackling passion fruit sugar rocks? These are some of the blind tastings going on at tonight's Taste of Perkins benefit for the Perkins School for the Blind. A sighted guide will escort you through taste stations, where you'll sample two savory and two sweet dishes, and two white and two red wines. If you prefer to see what you're eating, there will be appetizers, beer, and wine. Music will be provided by Perkins students John Castillo on drums and vocals, and keyboardist Andrew Park. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $35 (additional $25 for blind tasting). Perkins School for the Blind, 175 North Beacon St., Watertown. 617-972-7583. www.perkins.org