Someday a smell will hit you and you’ll be back in your grandma’s kitchen. Spend more time in that kitchen now.

Smell reaches memory by a short route and brings back whole rooms without warning. What gets stored that way is rarely anything anyone planned, just the ordinary background of being somewhere often. Which means the material for that experience is being laid down now, in kitchens you are barely paying attention to.

Go and be in the room where the cooking is happening rather than waiting to be called. Stay for the part before and the part after. You are not making a memory so much as standing inside one while it is still an ordinary afternoon.