Taste of the South

Memories from Malaysia

that y’all will know exactly what I’m talking about when I say that the sense of smell has the ability to transport you to previous places and times in life. Sometimes you know it’s coming, like when you’re putting on a pot of your mother’s famous bean soup in the fall. Other times, it catches you off guard, like when you’re walking to work, and the scent of

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