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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Michael Huffman wrote:
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A few new web-sites to add to your reading list:
http://www.iheartbacon.com/
http://www.baconunwrapped.com/
Yum!
--Mike.
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A real treat in a recent book review in the New Yorker style issue:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/03/10/080310crbo_books_lanchester
It’s about perfume. Or actually, it’s about a book about perfume: “Perfumes:
The Guide,” by Turin and Sanchez. If you’re in a hurry, I give you the closing
bit:
... Turin’s review of Lancôme’s Trésor:
‘I once sat in the London Tube across a young woman wearing a t-shirt printed
with headline-size words ALL THIS across her large breasts, and in small type
underneath “and brains too.” That vulgar-but-wily combination seems to me to sum
up Trésor. Up close, when you can read the small print, Trésor is a superbly
clever accord between powdery rose and vetiver, reminiscent of the structure of
Habanita. From a distance, it’s the trashiest, most good-humored pink mohair
sweater and bleached hair thing imaginable. When you manage to appeal to both
the reptilian brain and the neocortex of menfolk, what happens is what befell
Trésor: a huge success.’
You don’t have to like perfume to like “Perfumes: The Guide.” Its blend of
technical knowledge and evocative writing is exemplary in the strict sense:
people who write about smell and taste in any context should use it as an
example. Turin may be wrong about what appeals to the male neocortex, however.
As Sanchez says, “The question that women casually shopping for perfume ask more
than any other is this: ‘What scent drives men wild?’ After years of intense
research, we know the definitive answer. It is bacon.”
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