I read a book a long time ago called The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. The story was of a girl who could taste the emotions of food, or rather, the emotions of the people who prepared the food. So her mum was sad, very sad, when she baked a lemon cake for her daughter’s birthday. To avoid tasting feelings, the protagonist ate a lot of raw food or processed foods, nothing in between. It was a pretty weird book, but the idea of transferring your emotions into the food or art you create stuck with me.
