Senses in Print

Ran across a good question: How do we use our senses to report without slipping into cliche? Lynn Franklin points out that taste and smell are aspects of reality best shown in print, not broadcast. But how do we report those with originality?

Dan Barry's one of the best. Here he makes the Fulton Fish Market smell poetic:

"It smells of truck exhaust and fish guts. Of glistening skipjacks and smoldering cigarettes; fluke, salmon and Joe Tuna's cigar. Of Canada, Florida, and the squid-ink East River. Of funny fish-talk riffs that end with profanities spat onto the mucky pavement, there to mix with coffee spills, beer blessings, and the flowing melt of sea-scented ice."

Any tips out there? Examples?