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McGee, Harold.
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Perception.
Olfactometry.
Odors.
Smell.
Senses and sensation.
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McGee, Harold.
Perception.
Olfactometry.
Odors.
Smell.
Senses and sensation.
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Nose dive : a
field
guide
to the
world
's
smells
/ Harold McGee.
by
McGee, Harold.
Penguin Press, 2020.
Call #:
612.86 M478n
Subjects
Perception.
Olfactometry.
Odors.
Smell.
Senses and sensation.
ISBN:
9780385666473 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Field
guide
to the
world
's
smells
[
World
's
smells
, a
field
guide
]
Description:
xxxii, 653 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [601]-634) and index.
Summary:
"Harold McGee, writes about the science of food and cooking. In Nose Dive, McGee takes us on a sensory-filled adventure, from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the sweetly fragrant Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of formaldehyde escape between the keys. We'll sniff the ordinary (wet pavement and cut grass) and extraordinary (fresh bread and chocolate), the delightful (roses and vanilla) and the unpleasant (spoiled meat and rotten eggs). We'll smell each other. 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."
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