![]() ![]() Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells-from lavender, cut grass and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books-using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells-the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth after rain-few of us understand how and why we smell. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Presented in partnership with Illinois Science CouncilĪbout the book: Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. She will be in joined in discussion by Christopher Kemp. ![]() Join us for a conversation with Jude Stewart on her book, Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell. " - Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs "The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the matre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory-and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour of their mysterious domains. ![]()
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