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    OFFICIAL AROMA can you think of others?

    as New Mexico honours it wonderful chili I think of my childhood in France when everyone seemed to smoke pungent Gitanes or Gauloise , garlic and wonderful kitchen aromas that I couldn't identify but later learned to be exotic ingrediets like moutarde de Dijon harissa, olive oil, balsamico, suacisson seche the bouquet garni the fresh garden herbs and little extras that mas made French cuisine so prized. Later I inhaled the bouquet of the wines of the Medoc , it was all downhill after that.
    Chiang Mai the smog New York the steam from below, London in the 50s smog, Savannah's sweet sticky cellulose plant.

    Scent-a Fe: New Mexico could be first state with official aroma | New Mexico | The Guardian



    Scent-a Fe: New Mexico could be first state with official aroma


    The familiar smell of roasted chiles is ‘unique to our state’, says lawmaker pushing to codify fragrance



    ‘Chile is in the hearts and on the plates of all New Mexicans,’ says the executive director of the New Mexico Chile Association. Photograph: Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal/Albuquerque Journal/ZUMA/REX/Shutterstock




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    Thu 2 Feb 2023 06.00 GMTThe sweet smell of green chile roasting on an open flame permeates New Mexico every fall, wafting from roadside stands and grocery store parking lots and inducing mouth-watering visions of culinary wonders.





    Now one state lawmaker says it’s time for everyone to wake up and smell the chile.

    Senator Bill Soules’ visit with fifth grade students in his southern district sparked a conversation about the savory hot peppers and the potential for New Mexico to become the first state in the nation to proudly have an official state aroma, a proposal now being considered by lawmakers.
    “It’s very unique to our state,” the Las Cruces Democrat said of roasting chile. “I have tried to think of any other state that has a smell or aroma that is that distinctive statewide, and I can’t think of any.”
    For New Mexico, chile is more than a key ingredient for every meal. It’s life. It’s at the center of the official state question – “red or green?” – and is one of the state’s official vegetables.

    Fresh harvested green chile waiting to be roasted at Grajeda Hatch Chile Market in Hatch, New Mexico. Photograph: Susan Montoya Bryan/APNew Mexico produced more than 60% of the US chile pepper crop in 2021 and is home to Hatch, an agricultural village known as the chile capital of the world for the unique red and green peppers it has turned out for generations. The famous crop also is used in powders, sauces and salsas that are shipped worldwide.
    Legislation recognizing roasted chile as the official aroma passed its first committee on Tuesday, and supporters say it’s not likely to fire up much debate – other than lawmakers sharing their own stories about how they can’t go a day without eating it, from red chile lattes to smothered breakfast burritos to plates of enchiladas and tamales infused with the peppers.
    “Chile is in the hearts and on the plates of all New Mexicans, and the smell of fresh roasting green chile allows us to reminisce on a memory eating or enjoying our beloved signature crop. We like to call that memory a person’s ‘chile story’, and each of us as New Mexicans have a chile story,” said Travis Day, executive director of the New Mexico Chile Association.
    Officially recognizing the aroma could also pay off as another way to market New Mexico to visitors.

    Robert Rivera of Mago’s Farm roasts Hatch green chile in August 2021. Photograph: Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal/Albuquerque Journal/Zuma/Rex/ShutterstockA legislative analysis of the bill noted that peak tourist season typically begins in March and tapers down toward the end of October, meaning it overlaps with the time for chile roasting. The analysis also noted that New Mexico has consistently lower visitation rates than neighboring Colorado, which reported 84.2 million visitors in 2021 compared with about 40 million in New Mexico.
    “The new state aroma could help draw visitors away from Colorado, which, for some reason, thinks it has green chile comparable to that of New Mexico,” the analysis quipped, in a nod to an ongoing feud between the two states.
    Soules, a former teacher and elementary school principal, has been using the aroma legislation as an opportunity to teach the fifth-graders about the legislative process. The students have been researching state symbols in New Mexico and elsewhere as part of preparing to testify on behalf of the bill.
    “They’re learning how to lobby, how to write letters to legislators to support this bill, they’re practicing their public speaking,” Soules said. “They’re learning lots about other things as part of their curriculum around this as a topic, so it’s a good education too.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    “It’s very unique to our state,” the Las Cruces Democrat said of roasting chile.
    Common enough in Isan. Years ago it was a common midnight snack from street vendors in Hong Kong who are probably long gone, although to be fair they also sold stinky bean curd and it was that aroma first and foremost that helped you find your way to their cart.

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    Bangkok drains

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    Officialdom?
    No such entity as an absolute.

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
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    It certainly does!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    It certainly does!
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    Germany everywhere seems to have kebabs and curry wurst not sure what the national dish maybe Hatty can expound or our other German experts, Lebekase , Schweinhaxe, Sauekraut with knockwurst and Kartoffel salat or something meaty? All hearty the things I like from Germany are many in bottles good dunkel, Kummel or eiswein
    In Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, Austria theh divine aromas from every bakery esp if Strudel is fresh.

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    ^ most of what non-Germans consider national German dishes are Bavarian

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    After watchin the Forest Malmo cup final in 1979, we missed the last train North that night from Munich hauptbahnhof. A German stall holder was just closing, and took pity on a group of well oiled Brits.
    Free kartoffel salat and frankfurters smells great in the very early morning.

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    Official Aroma of Indonesia?


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    freshly cut grass and the smell of the first rains on hot bitumen - the smell of Australian urban wastelands - reminds me of me dad.

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    The smell of a fishing harbour

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