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If you really want to get a glimpse of the importance of your sense of vision, you should go to a blind-dining restaurant and enjoy the surprising helplessness that overwhelms you when you try to eat and identify food and wine purely by taste in a pitch-black environment where your sense of vision is completely useless. Not easy at all. It is truly a refreshing, fantastic experience [“Dans le Noir”: 30–31 Clerkenwell Green EC1R 0DU, London, UK (opened in spring 2006)].
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If you really want to get a glimpse of the importance of your sense of vision, you should go to a blind-dining restaurant and enjoy the surprising helplessness that overwhelms you when you try to eat and identify food and wine purely by taste in a pitch-black environment where your sense of vision is completely useless. Not easy at all. It is truly a refreshing, fantastic experience [“Dans le Noir”: 30–31 Clerkenwell Green EC1R 0DU, London, UK (opened in spring 2006)].
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Kolle, M. (2011). Introduction. In: Photonic Structures Inspired by Nature. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15169-9_1
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