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"The next time you eat or drink something delicious, pause and reflect on
what a life-enriching ability being able to taste is."

No. Seriously. Speaking from a place in which, at best, I feel like an oral anesthetic has been sprayed into my mouth - - pause and reflect.

I wasn't thinking about how interesting this book is going to be in terms of my current situation. Here is an exploration of how taste is sensed and transmitted to the brain - an ability that is sadly banjaxed in me these days due to chemo. Of the five basic tastes, salty is completely missing from my palate (ramen tastes like nothing); a great deal of sweet is tainted; the others are variable.