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The Flavour Thesaurus

by Niki Segnit · first published 2010

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  • Erwin · Mar 11, 2021 · Recommends

    …are good at getting to the core of a dish idea, listing out the variations. Felicity Cloake's "Perfect" column in The Guardian for example. For the Wikipedia of food, Nikki Segnit's Lateral Cooking / Flavour Thesaurus are great -- you start out with basic "stew" technique and then a dozen usual and unusual variations.

    on “Based Cooking” ↗
  • leoc · Jan 4, 2025 · Mentions

    …Lateral Cooking: One Dish Leads to Another by Niki Segnit, 2019, ISBN 978-1635572643 (978-1635572643 US ed.) https://www.nikisegnit.com/lateral-cooking . Seems to lean on Segnit's prevous book, 2010's The Flavour Thesaurus, ISBN 978-0747599777 (978-1608198740 2012 US ed.): https://www.nikisegnit.com/the-flavour-thesaurus .

    on “Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce” ↗

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