On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:14:39 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
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>Bryan, I was thinking about your "tastes" as I made and enjoyed
>another batch of my curried chicken, which I know you'd hate. I always
>say that I've never had anything gross that you've prepared and that
>is true. But I've also never had anything exceptionally or creatively
>spiced or flavored that you have made either! Like my curried chicken.
>Your "tastes" are very simple and pedestrian, not that there is
>anything wrong with that, but there is also not anything exceptionally
>right with it either. Good food is inherently delicious with the most
>basic of preparation methods, and this is what you excel at because of
>your hypersensitive senses of smell and flavor.
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>I finally get it!
>
>John Kuthe...

Regarding hypersensitive smell, it's real. I suffered such for a
period of months and it is awful You pick up notes in foods that no
one else knows is there or you'll pick up on something so exaggerated
as to be impossible to tolerate. After living through that, I am now
very tolerant of other people's likes and dislikes. I believe that
everyone is operating with different tuning on their senses.
Janet US