The Taste of the World: When Lin Zhiwei, a twenty-first-century food science whiz, woke up after an explosion in the lab, she had become Su Yuzhuan, the daughter of a Jiangnan salt merchant who had tried to drown herself. Facing a home stripped bare, a gravely ill father, and humiliation after her snobbish fiance broke off their engagement, Su Yuzhuan's new life begins with a cooking pot and a wisp of enticing fragrance.