A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BEST BOOKS OF 2020: SCIENCE - FINANCIAL TIMES SHORTLSTED
FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARD 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. DIVE IN!
