The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food

  • “It’s actually the nose that serves as laboratory, as much for the chef as for the perfumer. That’s why experienced cooks spend as much time smelling as they do tasting. The mingled scent of ingredients describes to the imagination how they might fit together before we actually combine them.”
  • “Cooking is a creative process, and as with other creative pursuits— music, art, writing— there are concepts and tools that can help guide you. Rather than leaving you a set of too-large or too-small or not-in-the-direction-I-wanted-to-go footprints, we wanted to equip you to blaze your own trail. We aim to teach you to become a creative, confident cook who knows how to think about and respond to the ingredients available to you in ways that result in delicious, memorable food.”
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