"It's very important to spend some time simply with your experience rather than with your thinking mind," said Chaskalson. "Experiencing means, when you go for a walk, do you experience your body moving, do you experience sights, do you experience smells?
In the case of my family, and those in our social spheres, this then transformed the meaning of food from simply that which is consumed for physical nourishment, rather it became the psychic representation of our homeland, the way we came to know the traditions of our ancestors, and the way we remember and didn't forget the experiences, smells, and tastes of our beloved homeland.
The taste and smell of Scotch Whisky is offered as a sensual experience (smell and/or taste) to assist people in gaining an understanding and appreciation of how process innovation leads to and is intertwined with product innovation for foods, chemical and engineered materials.
Studies suggest that the experience of smelling and tasting wine is extremely susceptible to interference from the cognitive parts of the brain.
There's something about the very personal experience of smelling that makes pinning it down with words irresistible, and the online economy has made it easier than ever for people to sample esoteric fragrances in order to write about them.
Nowadays so much is pre-packaged, people don't have the same experience of smelling food.
"If it's the case that an execution of a computer program instantiates what it feels like to be human," he says, "experiencing pain, smelling the beautiful perfume of a long-lost lover – then phenomenal consciousness must be everywhere.
At the Museum of Modern Art, where his wax chamber "Passageway" is on view as part of the "Open Ends" exhibition, visitors are barred by a rope from entering, experiencing or smelling the work, and it is reduced to something Mr. Laib never meant it to be: mere sculpture.
Travel means experiencing, seeing, smelling, and hearing new things.
This is where edible cinema worked best, when the audience experience tastes, smells and textures evocative of those the characters are experiencing and as a result you are swept along in the moment.
