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Jean-Robert Pitte: "The complaint of the closed restaurant, a mark of Latin countries"

2021-03-15T20:07:50.100Z


THE FIVE SENSES COVID-19 PROOF (5/5) - For a year now, coronavirus obsession and life restrictions seem to have made us one-dimensional beings lost in a world emptied of the sensitive. For the geographer, "one is not completely man or woman if one does not ...


LE FIGARO.

- You who are such a fine gourmet have been the victim of this ageusia caused by the coronavirus ...

Jean-Robert PITTE.

- You can't imagine the drama I experienced: I was a long-distance runner, I found myself crippled.

Losing taste is a real pain for anyone interested in their taste buds.

But things are now much better.

It is such a pleasure to find what is dear to you!

I thought of Jean-Paul Kauffmann who, in

Le Bordeaux rediscovered

, written after his three years as a hostage kidnapped in Beirut, gives the poignant story of tasting his first glass of wine ...

Why is taste important?

To lose taste is to lose perception of the world.

In our overly intellectual culture we have let down the senses.

The five senses are vulgar.

Aristotle establishes a hierarchy in which taste, smell and touch are considered to be more animal.

The relationship between brain intelligence, that of the heart and our senses

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Source: lefigaro

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