{"id":239710,"date":"2010-01-27T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2010-01-27T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T20:30:39","slug":"the-power-of-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/239710","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2237\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2237\" title=\"Pico.tamale\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/01\/Pico.tamale-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Credit Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Houston Chronicle&#8217;s restaurant critic, Alison Cook, has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/cookstour\/archives\/2010\/01\/the_power_of_ar.html\">a wonderfully descriptive essay<\/a><\/strong> on how the evocative aromas of some dishes bring up memories and associations, and really make a difference in how you experience food.\u00a0 I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>The same idea came to me the other day when my wife, back from a business trip to Bahrain, brought me back a spice from the market there I had never seen before called <em>dar filfil<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2238\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2238\" title=\"dar filfil\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/01\/dar-filfil-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dar filfil (left) and licorice root\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dar filfil (left) and licorice root<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>These hard dried fruit spikes (they look a little like tiny pine cones) are grated and used as a spicy seasoning, which is why they are sometimes called &#8220;long pepper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The flavor is similar to black pepper in that it&#8217;s sharp and fruity, and it makes your tongue tingle. But there is also something more that comes out in the smell. A friend was over, and we ground one of these little cones into a hillock of powder when we both made the same comment: The smell! Musky, floral, kind &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle The Houston Chronicle&#8217;s restaurant critic, Alison Cook, has a wonderfully descriptive essay on how the evocative aromas of some dishes bring up memories and associations, and really make a difference in how you experience food.\u00a0 I highly recommend it. The same idea came to me the other day when my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}