Jonah Lehrer is a Contributing Editor at Wired and the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. He graduated from Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He has written for The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He’s also a Contributing Editor at […]
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Jonah Lehrer: Food Memory
A few dozen pages into Swann’s Way, after Proust has finished documenting his insomnia in clinical detail, the narrator dips a little cookie into a cup of lime-flower tea. Everybody knows what happens next: it’s one of the most famous literary scenes of all time, in which Marcel recovers his lost memories of childhood in […]