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Jordi Roca, pastry chef from 3 Michelin star restaurant El Celler de Can Roca, designed a dessert based on the scent of old books. He captures that characteris
by fauria 3y ago
Jordi Roca, pastry chef from 3 Michelin star restaurant El Celler de Can Roca, designed a dessert based on the scent of old books.
He captures that characteristic smell using a technique called enfleurage, soaking an old book in a neutral fat and then distilling it using a device called Rotaval.
He then pours some drops on thin wafers that resemble book pages.
Here is a short video describing the process: https://youtube.com/shorts/zN2uHgX0rRA https://youtube.com/shorts/zN2uHgX0rRA
- resbaloso 3y agoNot particularly appealing for someone dealing with the [Marikio Aoki phenomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Aoki_phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Aoki_phenomenon). Walking into a library and smelling old books triggers the urge to defecate for me.
- Tokumei-no-hito 3y agoThis is an incredible wtf article. It’s so absurd it has to be real, I don’t know how it could be made up.
- PaulBGD_ 3y agoOne data point, I’ve been affected by this for decades now. I had no idea before the article that others experienced it too.
- croisillon 3y agoWell that's interesting, i was in a paper shop this afternoon (i love paper shops), and i suddenly wanted to go to the bathroom and realized it happens often there!
- JohnBooty 3y agoWow, that's wild. Certain rooms do that to me. In the house where I grew up it was the upstairs room. (It wasn't the stairs themselves; no other stairs in the house did it) In our current home it's the basement. Sadly those rooms are not filled with books. I can't tell if it's a statistically real effect. I had always told myself it was not real, but having heard of "Marikio Aoki" phenomenon for the first time just now, I'm wondering...
- qup 3y agoI have a workshop that I credit with the same effect. Every trip to the workshop is at least two trips, because I'm interrupted. Also I associate this with gambling, no matter the stakes or the location, including locations that don't trigger any response in different contexts (like my living room).
- JohnBooty 3y agoGlad to know I'm not completely alone....
- fnord77 3y agoOMG. I have crohn's disease and walking into a library gives me the urge to go, consistently.
- jimhefferon 3y agoDitto. Libraries and bookstores can be an issue.
- Solvency 3y ago[flagged]
- grogenaut 3y agoMadam or sir we should chat about your strawberry flavoured whatever... I'm sure you've accidentally or on purpose ingested paper before and are alive. Saw
- fauria 3y agoDo you have any source supporting that claim? Reading the article, the compounds mentioned (benzaldehyde, vanillin, ethylbenzene and 2-ethyl hexanol) are either already used by the food industry, or exhibit low toxicity in animal models. Considering the tiniest amount of any of them is used, I wouldn't describe the dish as "incredibly unhealthy".
- spamizbad 3y agoEh I’d eat it
- ThrowawayR2 3y agoHate to break it to you but people literally soak alcohol in wooden barrels for years in order to leach a multitude of chemicals out of the wood just for the flavor.
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- switch007 3y agoIs he...OK? There's eccentric and then there's needing help
- fauria 3y agoApart from suffering from dysphonia and as far as I know yes, he is OK. He was awarded World's Best Pastry Chef in 2014 and his restaurant has been awarded either best or second best restaurant in the world by Restaurant Magazine (50 Best) 5 years in a row. Not sure if he needs much help, to be honest.
- switch007 3y agoI wouldn't care if he won a Nobel Prize - dirty old books sound like a disgusting ingredient to use.
- zepolen 3y agoYou really don't want to learn what you have actually ingested over the years.
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- switch007 3y agoFollowing your logic, you’ve probably accidentally ingested some faeces at some point in your life. Therefore I invite you over to my house for a 3 course meal of whatever I find at the local dog park
- zepolen 3y agoI'm laughing pretty hard here, that analogy makes no sense whatsoever and doesn't follow my logic at all. Perhaps if the chef in question was serving an entire book as a meal sprinkled with some feces :)
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoThere was movie about that process (though not with books): "Perfume, the Story of a Murderer" I liked it.
- mola 3y agoIt's also a very engaging book