What does the loss of smell mean for life in the kitchen and at the table?
This explains why some people with smell loss shy away from dishes like “macaroni and cheese because it’s purely savory, white, and doesn’t look terribly appetizing on a plate,” as Kelly puts it. It’s also “why Mexican, Indian, and Chinese food are really good” for people with smell loss, she says. “You often get a mixture of textures, hot and colds, and true tastes” in each dish.
“If you smell three chemicals individually, we know that one smells like potatoes, one like cucumbers, and one like tomatoes,” adds, vice president of the Monell Center, a hub for research on smell and taste. “They don’t smell anything alike. But if you put those together in the right combination, what you get is a dead fish.” And no one understands why.
The deep sense of loss people with smell disorders who previously leaned on scent above all else to engage with food often feel is both valid and understandable. But, Kelly suggests, wallowing in it is often the greatest impediment to their continuing relationships with food. “Often, people report that they have zero sense of smell,” she says, likely because they feel they’ve lost so much compared to their baselines.
Some anosmics describe developing a heightened sense of true taste almost incidentally, which makes them more attuned to tiny differences in what many think of as broad, basic flavors. “I could tell you probably down to the nearest grain how much sugar I’ve put into my cup of tea,”, who founded Fifth Sense, a support and advocacy group for people with smell and taste disorders, in 2012, seven years after losing his sense of smell due to a head injury, explains.
This lack of certainty about what will change and how to react to shifts can be frustrating and frightening for many people. The fact that “many physicians are poorly educated about [smell and taste] disorders, and so are either dismissive,” as Munger acknowledges, or unable to offer context or insights, often compounds these emotions—and serves them with a side of isolation.
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