People are losing their taste and smell to COVID-19. Now there’s a cookbook to help. Share Baked vanilla oats with cardamom, raspberry and rose syrup is one of several desserts featured in “Taste & Flavour.” cookbook, which is a collection of recipes for people who have lost their taste and smell due to COVID-19. Craig Robertson On a Sunday afternoon last March, Gillian Dixon was cooking roast beef for lunch, which would normally fill her home in the United Kingdom with a distinct savory scent. That day, though, something was amiss: “I suddenly thought, ‘I can’t smell the beef,’ ” Dixon, 53, recalled.