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By Steve Garbarino 2021 March 24, 11:13 JST Updated

　Tom Ramsey (55) felt the taste after a long absence when he was eating a hospital.Ramsey, an executive chef in Achafalaya, a luxury restaurant in New Orleans, had a new colonovirus infection (COVID-19) at the end of January and temporarily lost its taste and smell.。

　I ate a pork stew rice."I didn't feel the smell yet," but Ramsey says, "The food was still delicious and the best.""I understand the thank you for feeling the taste again."

　After leaving the hospital, the taste became weaker again, but Ramsey did not want to give up yet.

　Some of the chefs and sommeliers, whose taste and smell have declined after the new colona infection, have created their own solutions and come up with ideas to regain their senses.

　Ramsey says, "I always pick up things and feel the smell to re -train my nose."He says, "I remember what the smell was."There are some things that can feel the smell and reproduce the smell in memory.

　"Speaking of the smell, it's like that, rosemary, and turmeric," says Ramsey."I can see the scent of nuts in a pro -shot and the smell of toast when cooking a mushroom. It's exactly the smell I'm looking for."

　Ramsey, who is receiving oxygen, reminds me of the childhood of childhood in Mississippi Delta, considering the idea of a new recipe at home.The unique smell in front of the thunderstorm is "one of the criteria of smell" for Ramsey.

　Of the new Corona infected people, 80 % of the people temporarily lose their sense of smell.According to doctors and researchers, most patients return in one or two weeks, but some have prolonged symptoms.Even if the sense of smell returns, some people develop unusual symptoms that change the sense of smell.

　One month after recovery from the new Corona, Susan Cranden, 37, wanted to drink wine.Cranden is a Seattle restaurant manager and is a sommelier qualification.She didn't feel any taste or smell for 35 days, but she opened Beaujolais in mid -January.She says, "She seemed only sour and cool juice," she said, but she still said, "It was a pretty good taste."

　After noticing that there was no taste, I continued how to eat while thinking, "The next bite is understandable.""I tried a variety of things to smell the scorched cats, eat pepper, chew mint, and wake up the taste."

　Cranden is gradually regaining the taste of wine, such as "wooden skin, moss, himalayasugi, smoke -like scent,".It is said that these smells feel much stronger than before they were infected with the new Corona.

　"The limited taste is now hoped. I think the taste will be re -trained.

　Now he is in charge of purchasing wine, taking advantage of the training he received as a sommelier.

　A former sommelier living in Fair Hope, Alabama, Julia Inhosa Ham, 50, lost his taste and smell due to the infection of the new Corona during November last year.After the infection, she tasted like when she licked paper.

　It has been three months since I started to feel the taste and smell, but now it is interesting to say that everything is sweet and olive.Inno Hosa Ham doesn't like sweets, but still says, "I'm grateful for my existence."

　Brennants, a restaurant in New Orleans, where Brace Tidwell works as a sommelier and drink director, is known for its champagne collection.In December, the smell was infected with the new colona and the smell became unknown.

　The sense of smell took a little longer.After three weeks after recovery, I didn't feel any smell.Now he has returned about 75 %, but he said, "There are days in good shape and some bad days."

　Once the taste returns, we will enjoy the Blue Point Oysters from the East Coast of the United States and the "toasted brioche, raspberry, caramans, and the fragrance of sugar pickled sugar".

　"I rely on my memory until the smell is completely returned," said Tidwell.

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