While anosmic, my appreciation of hot peppers increased greatly, an effect that remains after having recovered my sense of smell. My gardens currently include three types of hot peppers, including peter peppers: http://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/PeterPeppers.htm .
Cheers, Karl W. ________________________________ From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:56 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] anosmia I have known a couple of people in my time who had little or no sense of smell. For one of them -- in about the only instance of my life that my technical psychological training turned out to be actually, practically useful -- I was cooking dinner for him one night and decided to sprinkle a bit of cayenne on the chicken I was baking (recalling from perception class that spicy flavors are transmitted by the trigeminal cranial nerve, bypassing the olfactory system). He reported that it was the best food he had eaten in years. The other one once served a Spanish wine at dinner which she described as being "salty, briney." When the various guests tasted it, the most obvious impression was a blast of eucalyptus-like resin of which the hostess was completely unaware. When I pinched my nose and tried the wine, indeed there was a salty taste to it that one could not really detect when one could also smell the resin. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
