A review by liviwn
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

5.0

Each chapter focuses on an artist and how their art preceded understandings of the brain that neuroscience can now explain. From memory to music to language. My favorite was on Auguste Escoffier and taste. He ‘discovered’ a molecule, glutamate (in the process of making veal stock) that produces a flavor outside of salty, sweet, bitter or sour.