Maggie Stern doesn’t eat at restaurants so much anymore. And she no longer buys fancy spices. Stern, a 42-year-old Haines hairdresser, fell on ice while skating last January, and hasn’t smelled or tasted anything since.
“I was totally a foodie. I loved to cook and explore exotic flavors. Now I’ve forgotten that food has taste. But I miss smell most of all,” Stern said in a phone interview this week from Wisconsin.
A lifetime ice-skater,…

