In this week's Creative Blog I wanted to share an exercise I read about in a book from class called Caffeine for the Creative Mind by (Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield). The creative exercise was called What’s That Amazing Smell? I was tasked with writing down 20 great smells I would remember when people are cooking.
List of top 20
Garlic sauteing in butter
Onions caramelizing
Bacon frying
Fresh bread baking
Roast chicken in the oven
Cookies baking
Freshly brewed coffee
Melting chocolate
Steak searing
Homemade soup simmering
Fresh herbs being chopped
Toasting bread
Cheese melting
Roasted garlic
Spices toasting
Vanilla extract
Seafood Grilling
Apple pie with cinnamon
Pancakes or waffles cooking
Corn on the cob roasting
This exercise was fascinating and had me dig deeper into why the average human can recognize about 10,000 different smells with a 65% accuracy after a year. I found that smell is wired directly into our brain's emotion and memory zones, so it sticks with us harder and longer than most other senses. That is why just a whiff of something cooking can take you back 20 years in seconds.
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