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often have we wished, looking
back on a delightful trip, that we
might live over again, in the
quiet of our home: some of the moments
which contributed to its charm.
The senses of taste and smell have
a strange potentiality to revive old me–
mories and bring back the past.
Thus a faint scent of jasmin will
evoke better than a volume of description,
the magic fragrance of an Andalusian
garden and the taste of
guanabana
cause
one's brain to throb with visions of a
white city in the dazzling sunlight bathed
by the deep blue waters of a tropical sea.
In Europe -in France especially–
a celebrated dish has often made the
fame of an otherwise unknown town,
and people come from afar to sample
it. Up to date guide hooks never fail
to inform the unsophisticated tourist
that such and such a place is renouned
for its duck or its
bouillabaisse.