{"product_id":"the-flavor-thesaurus-a-compendium-of-pairings-recipes-and-ideas-for-the-creative-cook","title":"The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings  Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnique  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 \u0026amp; Grassy \" \"Berry \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946451824693,"sku":"ByrdShop_1596916044","price":35.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596916043.jpg?v=1769949810","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-flavor-thesaurus-a-compendium-of-pairings-recipes-and-ideas-for-the-creative-cook","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}