
Nose Dive
A Field Guide to the World's Smells
By: Harold Mcgee
Hardcover | 15 October 2020 | Edition Number 1
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The long awaited new book from Harold McGee, winner of the André Simon Food Book of the Year & the James Beard Award.
What is smell? How does it work? And why is it so important?
HAROLD McGEE, leading expert on the science of food and cooking, has spent a decade exploring our most overlooked sense.
Nose Dive is the amazing result: it takes us on an adventure across four billion years and the whole globe, from the sulphurous early Earth to the fruit-filled Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, and back to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of phenol and formaldehyde are escaping between the keys.
A work of astounding scholarship and originality, Nose Dive distils the science behind smells and translates it into an accessible and entertaining sensory and olfactory guide. We’ll sniff the ordinary (wet pavement and cut grass) and extraordinary (ambergris and truffles), the delightful (roses and vanilla) and the challenging (swamplands and durians). We’ll smell each other. We’ll smell ourselves. Here is a story of the world, of all of the smells under our noses.
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About the Author
Harold McGee writes about the chemistry of food and cooking, and the science of everyday life. He has worked alongside some of world’s most innovative chefs, including Thomas Keller and Heston Blumenthal. He lives with his family in California.
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ISBN: 9780340963227
ISBN-10: 0340963220
Published: 15th October 2020
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 688
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: John Murray
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 5.3 x 16.4 x 24.1
Weight (kg): 0.94
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