5/21/2023 0 Comments Niki segnit the flavour thesaurusBeautifully packaged, The Flavour Thesaurus is not only a highly useful, and covetable, reference book that will immeasurably improve your cooking - it's the sort of book that might keep you up at night reading. It covers classic pairings such as pork & apple, lamb & apricot, and cucumber & dill contemporary favourites like chocolate & chilli, lobster & vanilla, and goat's cheese & beetroot and interesting but unlikely-sounding couples including black pudding & chocolate, lemon & beef, blueberry & mushroom, and watermelon & oyster. Niki Segnit is the award-winning author of The Flavour Thesaurus, Lateral Cooking, and now The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours, published in May 2023. There are 980 entries in all, with 200 recipes and suggestions embedded in the text. The front section contains an entry for every flavour match listed in the back section and is organised into 16 flavour themes such a Bramble & Hedge, Green & Grassy, and Earthy. The back section lists, alphabetically, 99 popular ingredients, and suggests classic and less well known flavour matches for each. The book follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus. Forming an understanding of how flavours work together, on the other. As she says- Following the instructions in a recipe is like parroting pre-formed sentences from a phrasebook. Niki Segnit was inspired to write The Flavour Thesaurus when she noticed how dependent she was on recipes. Ever wondered why one flavour works with another? Or lacked inspiration for what to do with a bundle of beetroot? The Flavour Thesaurus is the first book to examine what goes with what, pair by pair. 30.75 1 Used from 27.84 14 New from 30.75.
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