Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way, (Paperback)

from frisbeesage

Season To Taste is Molly Birnbaum's memoir about losing her sense of smell in a traumatic car accident. At first look losing your sense of smell may not seem like a truly horrible loss, but more of your brain, memory, and taste are controlled by scents then you realize. At the time of the acciden...

from PatienceFortitude

Combining foodie memoir and accessible science writing, it was pretty much guaranteed that I'd love this book. Molly Birnbaum dreams of going to culinary school and becoming a chef. But, a traffic accident wrecks her knee, breaks her pelvis, and completely destroys her sense of smell. Taking her ...

from Katherine.Fritz

I found this book totally fascinating, not least because Birnbaum consulted with a number of scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, where I began working this summer. Really interesting to read the lay perspective of the science behind taste and smell, which is the raison d'etre of Mone...

from varske

I was recommended this book by a friend foodie who knew I had lost my sense of smell. It was useful to learn a bit more about how smell works and can be lost and regained, though it seems it is too late to recover mine now 20 or so years later. It was useful to learn about shared fears of dangers...

from gayla.bassham

The problem with memoirs is that it's very difficult to write one without coming across as totally self-absorbed. At least it seems to be. So--although this was an interesting story, I got very frustrated with the author for the first half of the book because she seemed whiny and spoiled and diff...