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Title: What Flavor is Your Personality? Discover Who You Are by Looking at What You Eat by Alan Hirsch M.D., Jan Fawcett, Stanley G. Harris, Alan Hirsch ISBN: 1-57071-647-1 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: As deep as a magazine article
Comment: I think the premise of this book is interesting - reflecting who you are by the tastes you prefer....the psychology of personality, the power of smell in memory and in attraction. The chapter titles enticed me (but it all seems to be advertising, with no depth) -- the writing and the information imparted in this book is no deeper than a magazine article. The book is probably worth paging through for fifteen minutes...you will catch all the information you need -- and will ever get from it -- that way.
Rating: 5
Summary: Examines how our olfactory system works
Comment: What Flavor Is Your Personality?: Discover Who Your Are By Looking At What You Eat is an informative examination of the research accomplished by the "Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation" that is an entertaining as it is instructive. As the foundation's Neurological Director, Dr. Alan Hirsch examines how our olfactory system works and how people with like personalities share preferences for various foods and scents. Numerous quizzes and surveys enable the reader to determine his or her true personality -- and that of friends, families and colleagues. What Flavor Is Your Personality? is a unique, insightful, original, and enthusiastically recommended addition to any personal or professoinal self-improvement, or self-discovery, or self-help reading list and reference collection.
Rating: 4
Summary: The nose knows - or at least takes good guesses
Comment: This book is really about the world of smell first, taste second - and the findings, meanings, ramifications, and just plain weird and thrilling things neurologists, psychiatrists, educators, and all sorts of additional folks have learned in the past several decades about olfactory stimuli.
Dr. Alan Hirsch is a neurologist and a psychiatrist, and has published a study entitled "Effects of Garlic Bread and Family Interactions." He has my vote. The results of that study, and a series of other, equally engaging ones (on migraines and fragrance, firefighters' loss of smell, nostalgia, the effects of "malodors" and more) are included in the wonderful appendix of this very entertaining book.
Considering the wealth of understanding and information that Hirsch has at his disposal, this book is a bit "lite, " and the chapter on meat is quite general. But the narrative seems to be grounded in Hirsh's research, and in his especially playful and hopeful sense of human possibility.
In addition, Hirsch mentions some strange and interesting things: for example, research into humans and smell has shown that certain floral smells are stimulating, ever so slightly anxiety-provoking, and therefore promote learning in test subjects. (Your third grade teacher who "smelled good" may actually have enhanced your ability to learn - by wearing perfume.) Male chefs - for a variety of reasons - have senses of smell that are often less acute than the diners in the restaurant. In order to make foods "taste like themselves," artificial flavoring often does the trick better than natural flavorings. Men and women have very different noses. (Men, think twice about taking a female date to a barbecue.) If someone "smells right," it's a very, very good thing - for a developing relationship. Likewise, the "wrong" smell jinxes things - utterly. However, men are turned off by many fewer smells than are women.
Much of research has been done by Hirsch. The index is a bit scanty, but on the other hand I have no idea how he managed in this book to describe me to a T based on my preferences in food and odors. I pestered family and friends and they, too, were impressed with his on-target analysis of their psyches and behaviors - based on food and odor preferences.
This book is a lot of fun.
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Title: Life's a Smelling Success: Using Scent to Empower Your Memory and Learning by Alan, MD Hirsch, Alan Hirsch M. D. ISBN: 0972525017 Publisher: Authors of Unity Publishers Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: SCENTSATIONAL WEIGHT LOSS : AT LAST A NEW EASY NATURAL WAY TO CONTROL YOUR APPETITE by Alan R. Hirsch ISBN: 0684845660 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 07 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Animal In You : Discover Your Animal Type and Unlock the Secrets of Your Personality by Roy Feinson ISBN: 0312180403 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Scentsational Sex: The Secret to Using Aroma for Arousal by Alan R. Hirsch, Alan P. Hirsch ISBN: 1862042411 Publisher: Harper Collins - UK Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Fragrant Mind: Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind, Mood, and Emotion by Valerie Ann Worwood ISBN: 1880032910 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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