bThe ultimate guide to the smells of the universe - the ambrosial to the malodorous, and everything in between - from the author of the acclaimed culinary guides iOn Food and Cookingi and iKeys to Good Cookingib pFrom Harold McGee, James Beard Award-winning author and leading expert on the science of food and cooking, comes an extensive exploration of the long-overlooked world of smell. In iNose Divei, McGee takes us on a sensory adventure, from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the fruit-filled Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of phenol and formaldehyde escape between the keys. We'll sniff the ordinary wet pavement and cut grass and the extraordinary ambergris and truffles, the delightful roses and vanilla and the challenging swamplands and durians. We'll smell one another. We'll smell ourselves. pThrough it all, McGee familiarizes us with the actual bits of matter that we breathe in--the