David Bryan's Blog

We are the transition generation – the last to remember the taste of good food. Smell, and I suspect taste, is vibrational. Can it be reproduced artificially? Yes, but since we have to know what we’re going for, no. How quickly will that vibrational memory leave? From a practical point of view, I’d guess quickly. We used to reinforce it with the taste of a snappy strawberry, the quest for a truly sweet apple, fresh young asparagus. We have a genetic memory, which pushes us into our eating search, and we become fat with frustration.