Ratatouille moment

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Meaning: (informal,figurative)Asudden,vividemotionalorsensorymemory, typicallytriggeredby asmell,taste,sound, orexperience, thatpowerfullyrecallsapasttimeorfeeling, often fromchildhood.2013September 25, Lesley Suter, “Lesley Suter’s Ratatouille Moment”, inBravo TV‎[1]:I carry on waiting for dishes that snap me out of the food-writing fog. I like to say that these meals “make the room go quiet,” or gave me thatRatatouille moment. You know, when the mean critic takes a bite of Remy’s dish and is whooshed out of the present back to his happy childhood?2023February 21, “Austin chef Gareth Deakes channels Ratatouille in the kitchen”, inAustin American-Statesman‎[2]:Such attention to detail helped Deakes achieve his very ownRatatouille momentwith a client at a corporate dining facility. He'd made her abutterbeerlatte, as in the flavor fromHarry Potter.2024, “Food, Nostalgia, and the “Ratatouille Moment””, inScience on Screen‎[3]:Her research is centered around what she describes as the "Ratatouille Moment," recalling the moment in the film when the food critic has an experience of food-related nostalgia that transports him back to his childhood.

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