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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 cook's 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 author's 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-it's 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.
- Sales Rank: #235938 in Books
- Published on: 2010-12-01
- Released on: 2010-11-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.71" h x 1.34" w x 5.96" l, 1.06 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 400 pages
From Booklist
The art of combining one food with another to create flavor harmonies has challenged earnest cooks for centuries. A good deal of science underlies this attempt to codify the senses’ reactions, but in the last analysis, flavors either taste good together or they don’t. Segnit, who has made a career creating and marketing new products, has set down what she’s discovered over the decades about which flavors harmonize with one another. She readily acknowledges the general success of such traditional pairings as lamb and mint, asparagus and mushrooms, garlic and basil, cucumber and dill, and bacon and eggs. But she goes on to explore more obscure and unusual combinations including watermelon and chili, horseradish and beets, Parmesan and pineapple, oysters and chicken, and even bacon and chocolate. Any aspiring culinary student will find this an invaluable reference work, and home cooks may find equal inspiration in Segnit’s creative ruminations. --Mark Knoblauch
Review
“To savor The Flavor Thesaurus fully it helps to think of its author, Niki Segnit, as a culinary marriage broker. An imaginative but practical matchmaker, she has a gift for pairing sometimes lackluster ingredients in a way that brings out the best in them and makes them more appealing as a couple than they ever were as loners… She shares an eloquent vocabulary with us in this delicious book.” ―Wall Street Journal
“The cure for dinner ennui…a cheekily erudite, endlessly fascinating master list of flavor pairings both familiar and surprising…the entries get you dreaming of both exotic feasts and after-work comfort foods.” ―Whole Living
“Erudite and inspiring, practical and fun, it will make you salivate, laugh, take issue and feel vindicated. Your synapses will fire in a whole new way as you trail your hand through your garden herbs … A deceptively simple little masterpiece.” ―Sunday Times (UK)
“An exquisite guide to combining flavors.” ―Observer (UK)
“An original and inspiring resource.” ―Heston Blumenthal
“Intriguing, surprising and remarkably useful.” ―Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
“The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes, And Ideas for the Creative Cook by Niki Segnit, will rival The Flavor Bible for pairing info.” ―Michael Ruhlman
“For new cooks and old hands in the kitchen, this book is a must-have and a must-read. Not only are the flavor combinations and recipes offered useful, but Niki Segnit's descriptions of each and every one are delightful to read. It's a combination between a bedtime read and a kitchen companion. ” ―GOOP
“For new cooks and old hands in the kitchen, this book is a must-have and a must-read. Not only are the flavor combinations and recipes offered useful, but Niki Segnit’s descriptions of each and every one are delightful to read. It’s a combination between a bedtime read and a kitchen companion.” ―GOOP
“Any aspiring culinary student will find this an invaluable reference work, and many home cooks may find equal inspiration in Segnit's creative ruminations.” ―Booklist
“Fascinating…a smart new reference for what goes with what, along with pithy explanations for why.” ―Denver Post
“[Segnit's] intuitive approach produces a cozy collection of description, anecdotes, and recipes within the flavor combination entries…Segnit's intimate style makes the book enjoyable as well as useful. This handy little guide will be a wonderful addition for cooks trying to expand their repertoire.” ―Library Journal
“One of the most fascinating food books I've come across in a long time.” ―Cincinnati Enquirer
About the Author
Niki Segnit had not so much as peeled a potato until her early twenties when, almost by accident, she discovered that she loved cooking. Much as she enjoys haute cuisine, she's not likely to attempt to reproduce it at home, preferring to experiment with recipes from domestic kitchens abroad. Her background is in marketing, specializing in food and drink, and she has worked with many famous brands of candy, snacks, baby foods, condiments, dairy products, hard liquors and soft drinks. She lives in central London with her husband.
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45 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
A Creative Effort
By S. Linkletter
This book wasn't at all what I expected, but after I accepted it for what it is I really began to enjoy it.
What I Didn't Like
Another reviewer found it to be like a dictionary in its definitions and details. I found it not at all like that. In fact, it is entirely subjective even by the author's own attestation. The "color wheel" of flavors I found to be useless. The copy without a seam from the binding is not even in color. Furthermore, the typeface on that copy is so small as to be unreadable for me without a magnifying glass. Aesthetics aside, the flavor wheel seems primarily presented to demonstrate that the author can cleverly devise a circular table of food flavors. There is nothing stemming from the wheel that will help you determine which flavors go together. It's not anything like an artist's color wheel, with those associated concepts.
What I Came To Enjoy
The author's rather creative idea was to compile a list of 99 foods and/or food types. The and/or is because some of the 99 are extremely well defined, such as "Lemon", while others are very general, such as "Hard Cheese". Regardless, those are how the author sees the universe of food, and as she says, it is her point of view from which she is writing.
Having defined the 99 foods, she set about to locate examples of each one occurring with the other 98. To this end she seems to have spent a rather inordinate amount of time in London pubs, but there are examples from other places and even from other countries. She wasn't able to locate an example for every pair, which is not surprising, although I suppose pubs are where you might find people who would try anything once so that particular bias is explained.
The sparkling thing about the book is the way in which she writes about the combinations, and the side stories that evolve from the descriptions. A description of a pair of foods might devolve into an almost totally irrelevant discussion of the old days in London pubs, or an explanation for why monks don't eat certain foods. There is some sharp, dry British humor at times, as well. It's that kind where the face is so straight that you know the speaker is either joking or insane, and either way is hysterically funny.
The content and quality of what was written in the book wooed me from my attitude of bitter disappointment over what I didn't find written there. I now very much enjoy reading this book. I just don't expect it to help me choose complementary "colors" of food.
I must add that the book is very well indexed. Even a stray mention of something not on her list of 99 foods, appearing in one of her side excursions, appears in the index. I very much appreciate not having to try to remember from which of the 99 foods the tangent arose, which referenced something I want to look up again.
48 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
Hit and miss
By A. Person
I was keen to get my hands on this book as I was fed up with the idea that the hobby cook's role is one of 'follower of recipes'. The primary stated aim of the book was what you might imagine - to examine pairings of certain flavours. An admirable aim tackling a poorly represented segment of the market, and although I feel Ms. Segnit has made a fair start in this area, I'm not convinced she has achieved what she set out to do.
I will start with an example, because I can see from the number of people who have found the non-5-star reviews helpful that there are either a lot of fans of this book (itself worth bearing in mind - mine is only one opinion) or a lot of friends of Segnit. This first example, a full entry (i.e. not a snippet of one), is one that I picked out at random:
'Pea & Oily Fish: According to New England tradition, gardeners make sure to plant their peas by Patriot's Day (19 April), in the hope that they'll be ready for the traditional Independence Day feast of poached salmon, fresh green peas and new potatoes. Strawberry shortcake is served for dessert.'
Now, this is vaguely interesting. It tells me about a culinary tradition in a part of the world I have never visited. What it doesn't tell me is why that combination might be good, how good it is, what kinds of oily fish might go better with peas, what it is about the flavour of peas that might complement, offset, balance, overpower, augment or improve the flavour of the fish, etc. The book is full of this kind of entry.
However, for the sake of balance I would also like to mention that the book does occasionally present some very interesting information on certain ingredients and flavours: their history, what separates them from similar ingredients, etc. And once in a while you will come across an entry that lives up to the book's stated aim by providing details as to how ingredients combine and complement one another (the Cabbage & Shellfish is one I found at random). The latter are just that little bit too thin on the ground for me to give the book any higher than three stars.
Too often the book strays back into the territory of the cookery book, detracting from the focus on the gap in the market Segnit said needed filled and that inspired her to write the book. Take this full entry as an example (again, at random):
'Chestnut & Pear: Hold back some of the chestnuts you bought for the stuffing at Christmas and serve them on Boxing Day in a salad of chopped pear, the best bits of dark turkey meat and some dark green leaves.'
I agree with the other reviewers who said that the book is cheaply produced, though personally I'm not overly bothered about this (...yet; I might change my mind once it starts falling to pieces in a few months time). A tiny niggle is that the name is ill-considered: a thesaurus provides synonyms, not word combinations, so a flavour thesaurus would in theory provide ingredient alternatives. Anyway, that's taking the review into the realm of pedantry. (EDIT: Have just seen that another reviewer noticed this point about the naming, though I should point out that her husband's comment regarding the etymology is irrelevant, as the meaning in modern-day English is what counts.)
So, to sum up, for me personally it's hit and miss. The scope of the book's aims as set out in the introduction are telling: Segnit has aimed to do too much. She wanted to examine flavour combinations (but had to restrict herself to 99 ingredients), present interesting information and anecdotes, keep it readable rather than purely a reference book and offer recipe ideas (i.e. not 200ml of this, 500g of that, but like the Chestnut & Pear example above). That's far too broad an aim, and to my mind she falls short on all accounts. The result is a book not suited to cover-to-cover reading and not suited to being a consistently reliable reference work (too often you'll look a pairing up and end up thinking 'that doesn't really tell me anything'). More focus would have improved the book considerably.
My view is of course coloured by what I was looking for in the book: an analysis (albeit not scientific) of flavour pairings, on the basis of which I would learn more about why certain ingredients might work together. If this is what you're looking for you might be a little disappointed. If you want a chatty, slightly meandering read for dipping into when on the toilet, in the car or (perhaps) strapped to the wings of a biplane, then this is a quite interesting book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great book!
By luis hernandez
Along with "Neurogastronomy" this book really work on the the way you sense and perceive taste by putting it into categories. A good, informative read and great reference!
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