On Jul 10, 7:34*pm, Janet Bostwick > wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:14:39 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> *snip
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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!
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> >John Kuthe...
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> 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

I know Bryan's hypersensitive sense of smell is real. I discovered
that a year or so ago when we were standing more than 6 feet from
Bryan's wife's basil plant and he was whinging about the basil smell.
I could not smell it until I walked over to the plant and rubbed the
leaf and smelled my finger! I have a HYPOsensitive sense of smell and
taste.

But Bryan's condemnatory decreeing of everything he doesn't like as
crap is bullshit, IMHO.

John Kuthe...