ACCORDING to Jay Gottfried, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University who studies how the brain perceives smells, the senses of smell and taste evolved to evoke strong emotions”. In Harold MCGee’s Curious Cook latest article from the New York Times, Harold examines the curious nature of certain foods, such as coriander and how many people have a strong aversion to it. The word coriander according to the Oxford dictionary is derived from the Greek word meaning bedbug and the smell of the herb has been linked to the smell of bug infested bedclothes. Read further the article from the New York Times
