So another thing we discussed in connection with Proust, in the attempt to bring him closer to the students, is the way scents as well as tastes could carry so much.
They played with lavender, oregano, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice. The oregano was fresh and no one recognized it! They just knew they had […]

Okay, enough fooling around. If I don’t talk about chocolate a little more here, I’m never going to be able to convince the IRS I should be able to tax deduct all the chocolate I eat.
This is one of those whatchamacallits, where the psychologist shows you a weird vague image and lets you tell […]

So while I was sleeping in rose petals, I dreamed of…you guessed it…

Isn’t this a pretty rose? (Oops, there I go taunting “Paris Glace” again! The full post on glaciers is coming soon, I promise.)
The roses that are grown for their oils around Grasse are the Rosa centifolia, or as they are often […]