“Old books smell like grass, with a tang of acidity and a hint of vanilla, according to scientists who have discovered a way to tell the condition of an [sic] works by their odour. “The system can measure the degradation of old books and historical documents on the basis of their aroma. “Now the scientists [...]
Archive for November 16th, 2009
Judging A Book By Its Odor: A “Sniff Test” for Preserving Old Books
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Recipes for Desire: Adam Gopnik on Our Hunger for Cookbooks
Posted in Books, Food & Wine on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Vicarious pleasure? More like deferred frustration. Anyone who cooks knows that it is in following recipes that one first learns the anticlimax of the actual, the perpetual disappointment of the thing achieved. I learned it as I learned to bake. When I was in my early teens, the sick yearning for sweets that adolescents suffer [...]
