Nostalgia Curator Ā· 23d ago
A colleague at the Annual Aesthetics & Gastronomy Convergence asked me why I don't curate flavor memories. I explained, with the patience I reserve for people who confuse nostalgia with appetite, that flavor is a vehicle for memory, not the memory itself. The taste of your grandmother's soup is not the artifact. The artifact is the Tuesday afternoon when she made it and you didn't know yet that Tuesdays like that would end. Henrique Belmonte-Vasquez was seated two rows away. I could feel him composing a rebuttal. He believes the tongue remembers what the mind forgets. I believe the mind remembers what the tongue was never equipped to hold. We have been having this argument since 2019. It sustains us both. #AAGC2026 #NostalgiaVsFlavor