The flavor thesaurus2010

From the inside flap of the dust jacket: "Unique, beautifully written and ceaselessly imaginiative, 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 inqisitive cook's guide to acquiring that understanding -- to learning the language of flavor.

Breaking the vast universe of ingredients to 99 essential flavors, Segnit suggests classic and less well-known pairing for each,...