The Art and Science of Foodpairing: 10,000 flavour matches that will transform the way you eat

Phenomenal book

This is a phenomenal book! Once you understand the flavour wheels you’ll find minor tweaks to your favourite recipes that make them taste amazing and amplifies your creativity on new dishes.

The book is sized to be a coffee table book, which is appropriate for how nice it looks, inside and out. I use it as a reference book when I'm coming up with new recipes, as there is a glossary of ingredients in the back that can take you to a "pairing table" for that ingredient. It helps guide recipe choices rather than serve as a traditional recipe book. It's especially useful when I have an ingredient and want to break out of my usual uses of that ingredient -- I go find its table and build a recipe off of a lesser-known pairing.

It's incredibly deep, still friendly for non scientific audience, you'll understand correlation between smell and taste, and how to use that in you're benefit when creating dishes or combination of ingredients.Very recommended.

Interesting book that might inspire but ultimately may be (1) far too specific [e.g. When they distinguish between pan-fried and oven-cooked bacon...I assume they're equivalent] (2) too obscure [e.g. Braised Atlantic wolffish, buckwheat honey, cooked black salsify, pan-fried wild wood pigeon] (3) just off the wall pairings [e.g. What complements Spanish chorizo? Pisco yep, manchego cheese yep, boiled broccoli okaaay. How about coffee? Boiled lobster tail...uhhh maybe?].

love!! Excellent informative teaching and preparing delicious food dishes combinations!

Great book to learn about the science behind flavored.

This is an incredible resource book. I think. Let's just say it requires a considerable investment in your time and mental effort to grasp what it offers. Not for the beginning cook. Probably not for the intermediate one, either. And more than a few advanced cooks will close this book slowly, the run away as fast as they can. However, stick with it, learn the system (some organic chemistry is also helpful) and there's a lot of really good food pairing information here.