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Taste, and its sensory twin, smell, can conjure long-forgotten memories more mysteriously and profoundly than sights, sounds, and touch can, yet flavours and aromas are harder to describe (unless you’re a sommelier or parfumier). Or maybe they’re so powerful because they’re so hard to describe.

This delicious fable feels like a folktale.
(What do folktales taste of, I wonder?)

The menu includes:
� Rosemary Crostini of Delightfully Misspent Youth
� Fennel Flatbread of Sunlit Days Gone By
� Rose-Pepper Shortbread of Sweetness Lost
� Lemon Tart of Profound Regret
� Bitter Chocolate of Agony Observed

For those who eat them, these carefully-crafted “Temporal Confections� kindle memories, smuggle a message, and trigger a journey - a more profound and potentially vengeful one than from Hansel and Gretel’s crumbs.

�A memory can be directed, a little, if the eater has practice� that moment trapped in time like a fly in amber.�

Image: Fossilised fly in Baltic amber ()

�Not all customers can be helped with a fennel-bright flatbread, a happy moment. There are many who need a more profound searching into their past.�
And not everyone deserves to relive their best moments.

You can read the story . And you should.

The taste of my memories

Three memories rolled around my palette as, and just after, I read:

� A favourite tale of my child’s was Sanji and the Baker. I recalled the warmth of freshly-baked bread and of a toddler on my lap, as well as Korky Paul’s swirling art. See my illustrated review HERE.

� Eating “dans le noir�: a pitch-black restaurant, where it’s remarkably hard to identify food by flavour and smell alone. See my review of Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, HERE.

� My mother is a good cook, except mince (minced/ground beef). Tonight, she mentioned she’s “enjoying experimenting with mince�. I shuddered, laughed, and texted my brother, who replied, “Gosh, that sounds alarming!�. He remembers, and like me, he can probably taste it again.


Image: These floral cupcakes, with different flavours for different people and moods, conjure very special memories for me.

Sometimes there’s no need for codes, keys, passwords, transcription, or symbols to send a message that awakens a memory: food can do it.