Why Do We Smell Food?

Molly is the perfect person to answer finn's question because wrote a book about her own journey to understand why we smell foods. Her story begins just before she was going to start school to become a chef, when something really unexpected happened. Molly loved the smell of apple crisp - it reminded her of picking apples every fall she was little. But when she brought out the apple crisp, and everyone was ooing and awing over that scent, like butter and apples and cinnamon, and i couldn't, i couldn't smell a thing. Smell is such an important part of flavor. And so trying to be a chef without a sense of smell didn't really work, cause you couldn