Great article in Men's Health

I read this article in Men's Health today: http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/man-without-taste
It's called "A Matter of Taste (And How I Lost Mine)". It's about a man who had an accident when he was a toddler and lost his taste of smell. What not everyone realizes is without a sense of smell all flavor is lost when eating food. You can distinguish sweet and sour or salty and umami, but that's all you can distinguish. The difference between vanilla and chocolate ice cream tastes exactly the same to him (except for any textural differences).
It's extremely interesting because he has still found a way to enjoy eating and drinking. He explores things on a textural level and will go through buffets piling different textures into a box and mixing them up as he eats them to see what makes the most interesting combination. He also eats tons of spicy food and finds pleasure in analyzing the different sensations that are induced by different peppers and hot sauces.
I like to cook and eat, but I've always taken food in as a complete package. It's interesting to see someone who's favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip purely because of the cooling sensation that the mint delivers. It's also a good example of narrative because we get insight into the textural differences of food and people who have similar olfactory disabilities to him while following the story of how he lives his life.
He also can distinguish between different kinds of whiskey by analyzing the burn that each one delivers. That's awesome.