Tag: The Senses
Reminiscents: Greek Mountain Tea, Scent, and Memory
I hold the tea like a bouquet of flowers, thumbing the soft fuzz of leaves and buds clinging to brittle, woody stalks.[1] I breathe in and smell incense: the inside of a small church on Monastiraki square where I stop to light a candle; a censor waved by the German teens who dress up as…
Tasting Sweetness
The human experience of flavor, of tasting and eating, uses all of our senses. We interact with our food using every sensory mechanism in our body: most of us hear, see, feel, smell, and taste food when we eat. In this mediation, I invite you to engage your senses fully and mindfully by consuming a…
nostalgia, νοσταλγία, and saudade
“Which kinds of memories does food have the particular capacity to inscribe?” (Holtzman 2006, 363) Holtzman reminds us that memory is multiple, that “what we homonymically label as ‘memory’ often refers to an array of very different processes” (2006, 362). In this exhortation for diversity, I read a call for nuance in types of…
How To Food Style Citrus
As a part of my Food and Visual Culture course at Boston University’s Gastronomy program, I attended a Food Styling workshop at Parachute Studios with Nina Gallant. My team selected this image as our final photo, and I wanted to share our analysis of it with you. As my partner and I set up this…
Ariana Gunderson 