Tortellini: The aroma of things past

Tortellini: The aroma of things past

Ever had a Proustian memory? Clinically speaking, it’s the “involuntary memory” triggered by the senses: something you taste or smell or see for the briefest moment. Marcel Proust famously described it in a passage from his book, À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past, or In Search of Lost Time), when he is reminded of his childhood by the taste of a madeleine dunked in tea. I recently watched an Instagram video in which a man…