Season to Taste - by Molly Birnbaum (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>"A rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story....This is a book I won't soon forget."--Molly Wizenberg, bestselling author of A Homemade Life<P>"Fresh, smart, and consistently surprising. If this beautifully written book were a smell, it would be a crisp green apple."--Claire Dederer, bestselling author of Poser<P>Season to Taste is an aspiring chef's moving account of finding her way--in the kitchen and beyond--after a tragic accident destroys her sense of smell. Molly Birnbaum's remarkable story--written with the good cheer and great charm of popular food writers Laurie Colwin and Ruth Reichl--is destined to stand alongside Julie Powell's Julie and Julia as a classic tale of a cooking life. Season to Taste is sad, funny, joyous, and inspiring.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"A rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story....This is a book I won't soon forget."<br />--Molly Wizenberg, bestselling author of <em>A Homemade Life</em></p><p>"Fresh, smart, and consistently surprising. If this beautifully written book were a smell, it would be a crisp green apple."<br />--Claire Dederer, bestselling author of <em>Poser</em></p><p><em>Season to Taste</em> is an aspiring chef's moving account of finding her way--in the kitchen and beyond--after a tragic accident destroys her sense of smell. Molly Birnbaum's remarkable story--written with the good cheer and great charm of popular food writers Laurie Colwin and Ruth Reichl--is destined to stand alongside Julie Powell's <em>Julie and Julia</em> as a classic tale of a cooking life. <em>Season to Taste</em> is sad, funny, joyous, and inspiring.<br /></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>When a head injury obliterated twenty-two-year-old Molly Birnbaum's sense of smell, it destroyed her dream of becoming a chef. Determined to reawaken her nose, she bravely sets off on a quest to rediscover the scented world. On the way, she seeks out everyone from former poet laureate Robert Pinsky to neuroscientist Oliver Sacks. A moving personal story packed with surprising facts about the senses, <em>Season to Taste</em> brims with the scents of Molly's world--cinnamon, cedarwood, fresh bagels, and lavender--lost and finally found. In <em>Season to Taste</em>, Molly describes an ineffable, but indispensable, layer of life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A culinary-minded journalist . . . movingly depicts the nearly ineffable plight of the anosmic . . . alongside passages of sweeping journalistic discovery of all things olfactory. A brave, unflagging memoir."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>"After reading Birnbaum's smart, lovely book, readers will be reminded to savor their next meal, each fragrant bite."--<em>Boston Globe</em><br><br>"Fascinating and vivid. . . . Packed with information and a great read to boot. I was smitten."--<em>Library Journal</em><br><br>"Moving and informative."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"Powerfully explores the science of smell and its ties to emotion, love and even memory. . . . A truly mouthwatering read."--<em>BookPage</em><br><br>"Tantalizing. . . . A pilgrimage out of devastation, toward reclaiming the dream of being a chef. . . . Where [Birnbaum] ends up will surprise you, much as it did her."--<em>Washington Post</em><br><br>"Molly Birnbaum's fascinating journey, told with charm and compassion, is ultimately a story of triumph. A book for food lovers, sensualists, and all of us in search of our true heart's desire."--Kim Sunée, bestselling author of <i>Trail of Crumbs</i><br><br>"A fascinating, illuminating and heartwarming read and a revelation of how aroma is woven, in intricate and complex patterns, through the tapestry of our lives."--<i>Frangrance Forum</i><br><br>"A wonderful book about life's unexpected turns, about love and its complexities, and about the ineffably mysterious human brain. I couldn't stop telling people about it, while I was reading it. It will make you see your nose, your life, and your most important decisions in a whole new way."--Maile Meloy, bestselling author of <i>Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It</i><br><br>"Molly Birnbaum writes with great curiosity and depth, reawakening in us all the sense of taste that we take for granted."--Amanda Hesser, author of <i>The Essential New York Times Cookbook</i><br><br>"Molly Birnbaum's fascinating book takes her--and us--deep inside the mysterious world of scent. Her writing about this unseen force is fresh, smart, and consistently surprising. If this beautifully written book were a smell, it would be a crisp green apple."--Claire Dederer, bestselling author of <i>Poser</i><br><br>"A Summer Hot Read."--New York Post<br><br>"Rich and insightful. . . . A veritable feast for the reader."--Charlotte Observer<br>
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