Recipes

One of the first things to go when our brains begin to fail, is sense of taste and smell. Who knew? No wonder food didn’t taste the same to my mother as it had before. It wasn’t a failure on the part of the cook or manufacturer, as she would have me believe. I discovered if I cooked dishes she had never had before, I might be off the hook for it not tasting like it did the last time she had it—which might have been in 1998. And sometimes (okay, always) the caregiver needs a special treat.