The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes

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Briscione, director of culinary research at the Institute of Culinary Education, along with cowriter and wife Parkhurst, will delight food nerds with this scientific exploration of flavor profiles of common ingredients...Professional chefs and home cooks who enjoy experimentation will welcome this insightful new approach." The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes p. 253 - Talks to the idea that fat is controversial as a taste, even though specific receptors have been found that specifically notice fattiness. This comprehensive book is a great tool for any student looking to strengthen his or her knowledge of ingredients, flavors, and textures. The opportunity to study and understand the science of these elements is a great advantage to today’s generation of cooks. They should all make use of it!"

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In her first cookbook, Bon Appétit and YouTube star of the show Gourmet Makes offers wisdom, problem-solving strategies, and more than 100 meticulously tested, creative, and inspiring recipes. The only vegetables book you'll ever need reveals hundreds of ways to cook nearly every vegetable under the sun. While The Flavor Matrix boasts a pleasing aesthetic and provides some creative insight into the science of flavor pairing, I found that it does not provide an easily understood explanation for how exactly to use the book and interpreting the matrix itself is not intuitive. After reading through the introduction several times, trying to construct a few dishes by using the matrix and coming up frustrated each time, I decided to analyze the shortcomings of the book through the lens of information architecture and user experience research. Problem The Flavor Matrix is not the first chapter in the saga of chefs that are using data to become more creative. Read here about how IBM created an algorithm that quantified the creativity of each recipe. There are five - or six, depending on who you ask - basic tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, umami, and fat. "As an instructor at one of the world’s top culinary schools, James Briscione thought he knew how to mix and match ingredients. Then he met IBM Watson. Working with the supercomputer to turn big data into delicious recipes, Briscione realized that he (like most chefs) knew next to nothing about why different foods taste good together. That epiphany launched him on a quest to understand the molecular basis of flavor—and it led, in time, to The Flavor Matrix .

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I borrowed this book from the library and read it at the recommendation of my daughter who is using it for a Meet-Up group. A fascinating collection of matrices that break down the best flavor combinations to make main ingredients shine...Visually, this book is stunning, like a science text for foodies, with a particularly helpful introduction...[ The Flavor Matrix]is a treat for gourmands and food science geeks." The author, a food scientist, studied the specific molecules involved in flavor. She then compared the makeup of various flavors and foods and which chemicals are shared among them. She discovered that very different kinds of food often shared flavors and that complementary tastes and balancing tastes may come from foods one would not consider as possible pairs, e.g., garlic and honey or cocoa and and eggplant. The Flavor Matrix is full of interesting insights into the way chefs build dynamic relationships between ingredients. Whether professional chefs or home cooks, we can all use these diagrams as a starting point for endless creativity.”

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p. 13 - He talks about complimentary vs balancing tastes. every person should know this if they plan on just being a great cook (not a chef, which is a different thing).I think this book has a lot of interesting information but as a professional Food Scientist who specializes in the sensory properties of food, I wish the author had gone about this differently. A few months ago, I stumbled upon the show, The Final Table, a Netflix original that showcases a global cooking competition among some of the world’s top chefs. In each episode, a new country is featured and the dish the chefs prepare must include a specific ingredient that is relevant to a country, and is chosen by top culinary critics of the same country. As I watched, I couldn’t help but feel inspired by the creativity of the dishes and the different ways each chef put a spin on the ingredients. I decided I wanted to challenge my own culinary interests and bought James Briscione’s book, The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes. Eggs have many flavor compounds in common with the dairy products, brown butter, coffee, and—uh—fish. Yum. Jan Willem Tulp/Houghton Mufflin Harcourt