The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook

About this book

Unique beautifully written and ceaselessly imaginative The Flavor Thesaurus is a completely new kind of food book-inspired as author Niki Segnit explains by her over-reliance on recipes. "Following the instructions in a recipe is like parroting pre-formed sentences from a phrasebook. Forming an understanding of how flavors work together on the other hand is like learning the language: it allows you to express yourself freely to improvise to cook a dish the way you want to cook it." The Flavor Thesaurus is the inquisitive cooks guide to acquiring that understanding-to learning the language of flavor. Breaking the vast universe of ingredients down to 99 essential flavors Segnit suggests classic and less well-known pairings for each grouping almost 1 000 entries into flavor families like "Green & Grassy " "Berry & Bush" and "Creamy Fruity." But The Flavor Thesaurus is much more than just a reference book seasoning the mix of culinary science culture and expert knowledge with the authors own insights and opinions all presented in her witty engaging and highly readable style. As appealing to the novice cook as to the experienced professional The Flavor Thesaurus will not only immeasurably improve your cooking-its the sort of book that might keep you up at night reading. Cooking is an art like writing or painting and great cooks are artists. And although the ultimate source of creativity remains elusive all painters have their color wheel all writers their vocabulary. And now in the form of this beautiful entertaining and exhaustively researched book cooks have their own collection of essential knowledge: The Flavor Thesaurus.