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Taste is our most neglected sense, though we develop it very early in the womb.

We fear a loss of sight or hearing, but taste, few of us think about it and when we do assume that its loss would be a minor

hindrance to a normal life. But would it? And what scale of hindrance are we

talking about when someone who makes their living through food suffers such a loss?

Marlene of Spiller is a cook and food writer. Her many beguiling books reveal a person who revels in the sensuality of food,

flavours, smells, tastes, textures.

But one day her life went topsy-turvy.

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