Edible story group discussion

We think that the main character Robert was hit in the head and that is how he lost his memory and his sense of taste and smell.Aguesia is the lost of taste and anosmia is the loss of the sense of smell. The main character in the book has this, he loses his job and he becomes a food critic. He is losing feelings for his wife and she him. 

Then there are fitness freaks who are obsessed with muffins with a substance in them. They created a muffin club that are obsessed with losing weight. 

 There is a politician that leaves his fiance who is a mexican woman whose slow cooking apparently holds him hostage from his politics. -- He had sex with her and she will not let him leave until he has tried menudo which is a soup that takes a long time to cook. 

There is a couple who have very different food tastes -- he likes fancy things, and she like beer and hot dogs. They are very in love but it seems to bother Emma that she has a different food taste than Howard. 

There is a woman that is afraid of cremes brulees and she thinks that everyone in the world is trying to poison her with them.