Consider your childhood. Think of the very best times that you shared with your family, and I am sure that the dining-room table will come to mind. Remember the smell of the kitchen. Close your eyes and smell those aromas, those memories. The brain remembers odors and smells and scents better than just about anything else. Lin Yutang, the great philosopher, put it this way: “What is patriotism except the memories of the good things that we ate as a child?”