For Tejal Rao, a restaurant critic for The Times, a sense of smell is crucial to what she does. After she contracted the coronavirus, it disappeared. It felt almost instant.“If you’re not used to it, you don’t know what’s going on,” she said. “It’s almost like wearing a blindfold.”We follow Tejal on her journey with home remedies and therapies to reclaim her sense. Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/tejal-rao">Tejal Rao</a>, a California restaurant critic and columnist for The New York Times.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. Background reading: <ul><li>Regaining a sense of smell is tedious and slow, but Tejal is using the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/dining/covid-loss-of-smell.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> only therapy proven to work.</a></li><li>Listen to our Sunday Read about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus-loss-of-smell-anosmia.html">how the coronavirus could precipitate a global understanding</a> of the sense of smell, which has long been disregarded as the least important sense.</li></ul>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily.</a> Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

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A Food Critic Loses Her Sense of Smell

The New York Times