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From the Publisher
The Art & Science of Foodpairing
10,000 flavor matches that will transform the way you eat
by Peter Coucquyt, Bernard Lahousse, and Johan Langenbick
From the Introduction:
Some ingredient pairings may appear peculiar at first, but only because we lack prior references. Consider Oaxcan mole negro, an intensely flavorful sauce served with chicken, in which chocolate is a key ingredient. In Japan, China and Korea, red adzuki beans are mashed to a paste, sweetened and turned into various sweet confections and desserts, while Italians drizzle balsamic vinegar over their gelato.
It just goes to show that there is no right or wrong way to pair ingredients. Whether we are comfortable winging it in the kitchen or prefer to stick to recipes, most of the ingredient pairings we encounter are intuitive. That’s not a bad thing, but intuitive pairings are generally limited to familiar combinations, based either on our personal preferences or on classic pairings with some cultural basis. This is why many of us grow bored of our own cooking. But once you look beyond the confines of your own kitchen, you will find an infinite number of potential pairings just waiting to be explored.
Since launching in 2007, Foodpairing has partnered with noted chefs, bartenders and brands from around the globe on some of the most exciting projects ever tasted. In this book, we will guide you through the history and science of Foodpairing and explain why unusual pairings like kiwi and oyster actually work. We will explore the world of aromas and discuss their significance in the role of recipe creation, and how scents are detected and perceived as flavors by our brains. You will learn to use recipe-building tools and gain insights that only the world’s top chefs have had access to until now. This book is designed to inspire food and drink pairings that will surprise, delight and impress.
Heston Blumenthal, The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire
“Foodpairing (or flavor pairing, as I usually call it) is now such a familiar part of the culinary landscape you might think it has always been there. In fact, though, it didn’t exist at all until the 1990s, when I started exploring whether there might be some underlying reason why certain food combinations worked so well together. At this stage, no other chefs were looking into this, nor was there any obvious route to follow – I was guided by my instincts and my curiosity, piecing things together as best I could.
One key step came from talking to friends of mine [in the scientific community]. I noticed that, if I asked them about particular combinations of ingredients, they often consulted a database called Volatile Compounds in Food (VCF) to see if they had compounds in common.
I began to get very excited about this. Although such technology was used not by chefs but by food companies and chemical manufacturers, I reckoned it would work in the kitchen just as well as the lab. I could use it to find all sorts of wonderful and unexpected flavor pairings, in part because I had already been working with another authoritative source of reference: Steffen Arctander’s book Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin. By cross-referencing one against the other, I reasoned I could take an ingredient such as [a] cherry, check its constituent compounds and then find other ingredients that shared those compounds and might thus complement it.
And so flavor pairing was born, as much out of my naivety as my curiosity and enthusiasm. For I soon came to realize that the molecular profile of even a single ingredient is so complex that, even if it shares plenty of compounds with another ingredient, it’s far from guaranteed that they will work together.
Foodpairing, therefore, is a wonderful tool for creativity, but only when used in concert with a chef’s intuition, imagination and – above all – emotion. It’s a great starting point but you still need to explore, try things out and, of course, taste constantly.”
Aroma wheels describe the unique aroma profiles of foods
Dark chocolate
Chocolate is a sweet, satisfying blend of roasted, nutty, caramel flavors, with trace amounts of natural stimulants like caffeine, theobromine, phenylethylamine and anandamide.
Compared to milk chocolate, dark chocolate is complex and bitter, with a pronounced flavor profile made up of fruity, floral, roasted, caramel, spicy and woody notes. In some cases, you may even detect green aromatic notes of oat flakes or a vegetal bell-pepper-like nuance. These vegetal links allow for some unexpected pairings, like chocolate with asparagus, beetroot, bell peppers, broccoli, butternut squash, cucumbers, parsnips, peas, potatoes and tomatoes – imagine a smooth, creamy chocolate mousse accompanied by fresh strawberries and sweet roasted red bell peppers.
Blueberry
Blueberries have a delicately sweet, fruity flavor, and bluish-purple anthocyanins give them a healthy antioxidant boost. Maturity at harvest is the most important factor when it comes to the quality and flavor of blueberries since neither can be improved once the fruit has been picked.
The floral, citrusy flavor of blueberries comes from the molecules geraniol and citronellol. In this concentration, the floral-scented geraniol molecules take on a fruity nuance, while the citronellol adds a citrusy touch. The floral, rose-like scents of blueberries pair beautifully with lychee, apple, raspberry, tomato and beetroot. The berries’ distinct citrus scent provides a natural link to oranges, lemongrass, fresh coriander, bay leaves, huacatay (Peruvian black mint) and certain gins.
Spanish chorizo
It is no surprise that the flavorful seasonings in chorizo make up much of its aroma profile. In the case of Spanish chorizo, smoked paprika gives the meat an intensely smoky, phenolic character, together with green and vegetal bell-pepper-like notes. Meanwhile, its roasted notes have a meaty nuance, while ingredients like garlic and onions add their own sulphurous aroma molecules to the mix.
We also find acids and other fruity aroma descriptors and floral notes in Spanish chorizo that are derived from the fermentation process and the degradation of lipids. Fruity peach and coconut lactones may be a result of either the smoking process or the oxidation of lipids.
Publisher : Firefly Books; 1st edition (September 10, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 388 pages
ISBN-10 : 0228100844
ISBN-13 : 978-0228100843
Item Weight : 3.85 pounds
Dimensions : 9 x 1.13 x 11 inches
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