Misty water-colored memories. Not the best song but it brings back a time and place to many people. A good song, or a bad song, like a good meal can bring you back quickly to a very specific time and place. Combine the two and the memories become so much stronger.
Food tastes better the more senses you use while eating it. Obviously, you use taste when you eat any meal and smell is at most meals as well. Add great decor and you add sight. Put on some complimentary music and you have added sound. I am trying to add a musical accompaniment to as many meals as I can. I find that the days where I pair music with my meal in the same way I would pick a wine it only heightens the experience.
A meal you can’t smell never tastes as good as the one that you smell wafting out of the kitchen before you sit down to eat it. A meal at a restaurant with the right ambiance can be more memorable than one at a restaurant that spends no time on setting the mood. I think that if you add the right music to the meal you can really intensify the meal. A great BBQ dinner with some good country music, a great burger with some excellent Rock and Roll, or an Italian dinner with some old crooner are all better because of the sounds that highlight the affair. Taking if from a meal to an event or if done really well making it not only an event but memory that could come flooding back with a smell or a clip from the right song. Try pairing your next meal with the right song or soundtrack and see what happens.
