A loss of smell may be one of Covid's lesser symptoms – but for cooks it's life-changing
Scrolling though social media one morning in March 2020, when Covid symptoms were still confined to a raised temperature and a new and continuous cough, I was startled to read a post by a friend who reported what was, to me, a far more disturbing phenomenon: her porridge now tasted like a bowl of snot. Though she still can’t stomach porridge almost a year on, Elaine is in one sense lucky – at least she doesn’t rely on her sense of smell to pay the rent. For those of us who do, such a loss is even harder to take. “In our job it’s almost embarrassing to admit it,” one food writer ...
Source: newstatesman.com