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!
