Sensual Cooking: Smell

Each post in the Sensual Cooking series will focus on one of the senses through which we experience our world.

What is your favorite food smell? For me, and many others, it is frying bacon. In fact, a study conducted by www.OnePoll.com in Great Britain concluded that men prefer the smell of frying bacon to that of newborn babies.* The smell of bacon is so appealing, that one man** has even invented a bacon alarm clock. Matty Sallin's Wake n' Bacon helps you face the day with the power of bacon!

The Wake n' Bacon: I'm not making this up.

In bacon, and many other foods, it is the fat that gives off a pleasing aroma. Fried chicken, steak, french fries. For this reason, when the people of Israel in the Old Testament wanted to worship God with their best, they would offer the fattiest portions of meat as a burnt offering.

The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD's.

Leviticus 3:16

This sacrifice was used to atone for unintentional sins and express their complete devotion to God. In the New Testament, Jesus became the final sacrifice for the atonement of sin, but that did not signify the end of demonstrating our worship and devotion to God.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 12:1

Thankfully, we are called to be living sacrifices. The idea is that we still offer God our best. The way we living should honor the One who made us. As Ephesians 5:2 says, we are to live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

*Finally! This study has been way overdue.
**my hero