"French novelist Marcel Proust knew all about the powerful effects of taste and smell on memory and emotion. His multi-volume “In Search of Lost Time,” written in the early 1900s, is based in part on childhood memories triggered by the taste and smell of a French cookie-sized cake, a petite madeleine, dipped in his cup of tea."
Taken from: What Proust’s Nose Knew
“The memory suddenly appears before my mind. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before church-time) my aunt Leonie used to give to me, dipping it first in her own cup of real or lime-flower tea’, leading him to the conclusion that ’When from a long-distant past nothing subsists … the smell and taste of things remain poised for a long time … and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”
Memory and Plasticity in the Olfactory System: From Infancy to Adulthood
The cookie- Proust
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