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I used to use an external filter but began to feel like the flavor and texture changed when using one, so I stopped. I had two filters: one for sencha and one for puerh. As time went on I began to notice that I got less leaf in my soup as the quality of tea improved and as my pouring technique impro...

For an excellent treatment of the importance of smell in our perception of flavor see Gordon M. Shepherd Neurogastronoyy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why it Matters (New York, Columbia University Press, 2011) https://cup.columbia.edu/book/neurogastronomy/9780231159111 That sounds like just the...

It was really strange. I could breathe clearly through my nose and yet nothing at all could be smelled. My wife brought home pho for me before I knew I had lost my sense of smell. It simply tasted sweet and salty/savory. I couldn’t even taste the ton of chili paste I dumped into the bowl. I didn’t s...

I completely (and temporarily) lost my ability to smell last week. While it was a troubling in the moment, I used the experience to observe the intersection of taste and smell. When I say that I lost my ability to smell, I mean that it was one hundred percent gone : I could breathe fine through my n...