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Let’s imagine we have a time machine, and we want to travel a few centuries back to visit a glorious past era.
Perhaps the Florentine Renaissance, the French Enlightenment period, the revolution of the 13 Colonies, or the Flanders of the great artists of oil painting.
Well, there is one thing that would strike you as soon as you arrive, so much so that you will immediately reevaluate the idea of returning to the comfortable 21st century.
And this is the stench.
Bed smells in the past
We snowflakes accustomed to our habits, in fact, would turn up our noses, perhaps even retching, in contact with the air that our ancestors breathed.
The incipit of the German novel “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” (by Patrick Suskind. It inspired also a nice movie) explains well what we would have found in 18th century Paris:
“The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of mouldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat, the unaired parlours stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets, damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber pots, the stench of sulfur roses from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lies from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease. The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces. The peasant stank as did the priest, the apprentice as did his master’s wife, the whole of the aristocracy stank, even the king himself stank, stank like a rank lion, and the queen like an old goat, summer and winter.”
Kitchens, well, those wouldn’t just smell like rotten cabbage and mutton fat, as described above.
Also there would be a terrible stench from the lighting of candles made with tallow and other pork waste.
And again, smells from olive oil stains congealed in the furniture, and a smell that may not be unpleasant, but certainly pungent, given by mountains of rosemary and oregano piled up in a corner.
Bed smells now. And the hoods!
So come on… it’s time to go back to the present.
And maybe install an extractor hood in your professional kitchen to remove bad smells and let you breathe as if you were in the open air.
Maybe a hood manufactured by Aluminox, which I happen to sell!
And, if you work in catering and/or hospitality industry and you are interested in my copywriting and/or contentwriting services, just text me!
