Something Smells Good: A Parosmia-Friendly Cookbook and Lifestyle Guide contains over 75 recipes and a healthy serving of lifestyle tips to help equip those struggling with post-viral smell loss and distortion to weather their season of recovery with hope.
While no cookbook could serve everyone with parosmia perfectly, the recipes, tips, and stories within Something Smells Good were written to guide those with parosmia as they relearn how to cook without so many of the common ingredients found in traditional dishes and suggest simple lifestyle changes to make their time with parosmia as manageable as it can possibly be.
Hannah, a native Texan, pays tribute to her upbringing with recipes like Homemade Biscuits, White Gravy, Cheese Enchiladas, Skillet Cobbler and her habanero-infused tequila cocktail, The Spicy Pineapple. Her love for Italian food shines through in her pizza and pasta dishes as well as her Pesto Veggie and Tortellini Soups.
All of the recipes in Something Smells Good are void of the most consistent parosmia triggers: meat, fish, garlic, onion, citrus, mint, coffee, chocolate, certain fruits and vegetables, white and yellow potatoes, eggs (except for those baked into sweet treats like muffins), battered/fried foods and peanut butter.
The recipes in Something Smells Good are built around foods that tend to be parosmia-friendly: grains, nuts, beans, lentils, fruits and vegetables in their most palatable forms (whether fresh, baked, frozen or dried), dairy and pantry staples like oil, vinegar, a variety of dried spices, vanilla, white and light brown sugar and maple syrup.
In the back of the cookbook, there is a recipe checklist and pantry stock list along with a couple of lined pages for notes.
Ten percent of the royalties from Something Smells Good will be donated to parosmia research and organizations in Texas who are feeding, sheltering and rehabilitating at-risk populations such as domestic abuse survivors, single mothers and those without homes.
Disclaimer: Hannah Gamble Higgins does not and cannot guarantee the recipes within this cookbook will be edible or enjoyable for everyone with parosmia, as each case is very unique.
