[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #693 - 22 msgs

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Olwen the Odd wrote:

> , on garlic confit.
> OK what's this?
>
> >I am by no means a garlic-hater, I just hate it when people's sweat
> >droplets come out shaped like cloves of garlic.
> >
> >Adamantius
>
> I am a garlic lover myself.  Our receptionist tells me she knows when I have
> roasted garlic bulbs with dinner the night before.  I cann't smell much of
> anything in pollen season but cann't really smell garlic anyway.  I suppose
> I eat too much of it.  Like some women and men wear purfumes or oils too
> strongly.  They put it in the same part of their bodies every time so they
> cann't smell it any more.  If they changed the point where they put it on
> they would be able to smell it again and wouldn't overdo.  I just cann't
> figure out where else in/on my body I can put the garlic so I could smell it
> again.
> Olwen
>

Apparently your brain, if you are exposed to a particular odor for an
extended period of time, starts ignoring it, so that you don't smell it
anymore. I'd imagine that people who wear the same perfume all the time
have conditioned their brains to ignore the scent, so they're not smelling
it anymore so they put more on.

Like in high school, when the girls would put more perfume on after gym
class. To this day, the smells of Heaven Scent and Love's Baby Soft make
me physically ill.

My love and inspiration has almost no sense of smell, so garlic does very
little for him. He claims it's part of the 'vanilla conspiracy', which is
a conspiracy on the part of cookbook writers in conjunction with the
vanilla manufacturers to include vanilla in all the recipes for baked
goods so people will continue to buy vanilla. Things included in the
vanilla conspiracy are shallots, green onions, and garlic.

Margaret FitzWilliam