Nose Dive

A Field Guide to the World's Smells

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<p><b>A <i>TIMES </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020</b><br><br><b>BEST BOOKS OF 2020: SCIENCE - <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i></b><br><br><b>SHORTLSTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARD </b><br><b><br>The long awaited new book from Harold McGee, winner of the André Simon Food Book of the Year &amp; the James Beard Award.</b><br><b><br>What is smell? </b><b>How does it work? </b><b>And why is it so important?</b><br><br><b>HAROLD McGEE</b>, leading expert on the science of food and cooking, has spent a decade exploring our most overlooked sense.<br><br><i>Nose Dive </i>is the amazing result: it takes us on an adventure across four billion years and the whole globe, from the <b>sulphurous </b>early Earth to the <b>fruit-filled </b>Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, and back to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of <b>phenol</b> and <b>formaldehyde </b>are escaping between the keys.<br><br>A work of astounding scholarship and originality, <i>Nose Dive</i> distils the science behind smells and translates it into an accessible and entertaining sensory and olfactory guide. We'll sniff the ordinary (<b>wet pavement</b> and <b>cut grass</b>) and extraordinary (<b>ambergris </b>and <b>truffles</b>), the delightful (<b>roses </b>and <b>vanilla</b>) and the challenging (<b>swamplands </b>and <b>durians</b>). We'll smell each other. We'll smell ourselves. Here is a story of the world, of all of the smells under our noses.<br><br><b>DIVE IN!</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780340963227

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

241 x 165 x 53 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.