Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

by Mary Roach

Eighty to ninety percent of the sensory experience of eating is olfaction.

This is cool. Feel bad for everyone with Anosmia, I mean my smell sucks, but it's at least kinda there

What sets a professional nose apart from an everyday nose is not so much its sensitivity to the many aromas in a food or drink, but the ability to tease them apart and identify them.

For one thing, smell, unlike our other senses, isn’t consciously processed. The input goes straight to the emotion and memory centers.

Woah 🤯