Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells

Description

Author: McGee, Harold  (1951-)

Publisher: Penguin Press

Pub Date: 2020

Binding: Hardcover

Conditon: Book: Fair to Good.  No tears, bends, folds.  Remainder mark on bottom text block, otherwise this appears unused.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Upper front cover edge wrinkled.  Slight corner wear.

Notes:  McGee’s “On Food and Cooking” is, to be cliched, a feast for non-fiction foodies.  He is ALMOST the John McPhee of food wrinting.  This volume–“…And like everything in the physical world, molecules have histories.  Many of the molecules that we smell every day existed long before there was even a planet for these creatures to live on.  Beginning with the origins of those molecules in interstellar space, McGee moves onward through the smells of our planet, the air and the oceans, the fores and the meadows and the city, all the way to the smells of incense, perfume, wine, and food.”  (Flap copy)  “Can you smell what The Rock is cookin’?”  (I’ll be here all week folks.  Don’t forget to tip your waitress).