What’s Cooking Wednesday: What’s That Smell? Smells are everywhere. Realtors bake cookies and make coffee to help sell houses. Proud owners of new cars draw in deep breaths of “new car smell.” But did you ever smell an exhibit in a museum? Visitors to “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” might notice something different about this exhibit. Or at least, their noses might notice. Go and smell it for yourself! The exhibit closes on January 3, 2011, and the smell will be only an olfactory memory. Have a favorite food smell of your own?  Answer below - but be sure to hop over to the Prologue Blog with your answer for a chance to win a copy of Eating with Uncle Sam from the Foundation for the National Archives! What’s your favorite food smell?
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What’s Cooking Wednesday: What’s That Smell?

Smells are everywhere. Realtors bake cookies and make coffee to help sell houses. Proud owners of new cars draw in deep breaths of “new car smell.” But did you ever smell an exhibit in a museum?

Visitors to “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” might notice something different about this exhibit. Or at least, their noses might notice. Go and smell it for yourself! The exhibit closes on January 3, 2011, and the smell will be only an olfactory memory.

Have a favorite food smell of your own?  Answer below - but be sure to hop over to the Prologue Blog with your answer for a chance to win a copy of Eating with Uncle Sam from the Foundation for the National Archives!

What’s your favorite food smell?

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  1. marriedat17 reblogged this from todaysdocument and added:
    I guess things do come back in style
  2. proofitgood reblogged this from todaysdocument and added:
    Disney pipes in the smell of fresh cookies on Main Street. True story.
  3. iycrmm reblogged this from todaysdocument
  4. kstengerdriscoll answered: copertone
  5. everywhere-art answered: freshly baked cookies mmmm
  6. sandyoien answered: Donuts!
  7. thegeneralcafe reblogged this from todaysdocument and added:
    The Generals North and South, in a few years.
  8. dunnraw answered: baking bread
  9. chillwave answered: +1 garlic
  10. jim1701 reblogged this from todaysdocument and added:
    Wow. Should be a interesting exhibit of scents to sample.
  11. atthecenteroftheworld answered: garlic
  12. thismissluvshistoryblogspot answered: Pumpkin bread baking
  13. jim1701 answered: Oy! So many to choose. Uhhh, put me down for fresh baked bread.
  14. ikalisoski answered: NEEM*-*
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