![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her background is in food and beverage marketing, which explains the book’s compelling format and the colorful graph on the inside cover that artfully depicts its themes. The naivete Segnit mentions is rooted in the fact that she is not a trained chef. As Segnit admits, it is not a complete guide (“a flavor thesaurus that accounted for every single flavor would be as impractical as it would be uncomfortable on the lap,” she writes), but it does match 99 unique flavors into 4,851 pairings-a compendium of inspiration for your own cooking, as you likely have a few of the ingredients listed on hand. Published in 2010, The Flavor Thesaurus is part reference book and part empowerment tool. And more practically: Was there a book she could read to learn the tricks to flavor pairing? When the answer seemed to be no, she set out to write one herself. ![]() How did they know what would work? Segnit wondered. While she scratched grooves into the pages of her cookbooks from underlining the same steps over and over, they were untethered, creative, pairing flavors seemingly by instinct. The idea for The Flavor Thesaurus, as author Niki Segnit notes in the book’s introduction, came to her in a moment of “almost touching naivete.” A home cook with a crippling dependency on recipes, Segnit watched as her less-risk-averse friends threw things together in the kitchen-ingredients she never would have guessed could harmonize on a plate-to surprising success. ![]()
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