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Nose Dive - A Field Guide to the World's Smells (Paperback)
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Nose Dive - A Field Guide to the World's Smells (Paperback)
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The ultimate guide to the smells of the universe - the ambrosial to
the malodorous, and everything in between - from the author of the
acclaimed culinary guides On Food and Cooking and Keys to Good
Cooking From Harold McGee, James Beard Award-winning author and
leading expert on the science of food and cooking, comes an
extensive exploration of the long-overlooked world of smell. In
Nose Dive, McGee takes us on a sensory adventure, from the
sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the
fruit-filled Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, to
the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of phenol and
formaldehyde escape between the keys. We'll sniff the ordinary (wet
pavement and cut grass) and the extraordinary (ambergris and
truffles), the delightful (roses and vanilla) and the challenging
(swamplands and durians). We'll smell one another. We'll smell
ourselves. Through it all, McGee familiarizes us with the actual
bits of matter that we breathe in-the molecules that trigger our
perceptions, that prompt the citrusy smells of coriander and beer
and the medicinal smells of daffodils and sea urchins. And like
everything in the physical world, molecules have histories. Many of
the molecules that we smell every day existed long before any
creature was around to smell them-before there was even a planet
for those creatures to live on. Beginning with the origins of those
molecules in interstellar space, McGee moves onward through the
smells of our planet, the air and the oceans, the forest and the
meadows and the city, all the way to the smells of incense,
perfume, wine, and food. Here is a story of the world, of every
smell under our collective nose. A work of astounding scholarship
and originality, Nose Dive distills the science behind the smells
and translates it, as only McGee can, into an accessible and
entertaining guide. Incorporating the latest insights of biology
and chemistry, and interweaving them with personal observations, he
reveals how our sense of smell has the power to expose invisible,
intangible details of our material world and trigger in us feelings
that are the very essence of being alive.
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