The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes

I purchased this book for a project we are creating around food. So far I have found it to be quite helpful in understanding and determining which foods work well together and for idea inspiration. It has actually boosted my own culinary creativity in the kitchen and given me many ideas.Once you understand how flavours work together then cooking will become so much easier and fun.

as a chef i am alwys looking for new books this was a gift for someone and it is brilliant

While this could be really fascinating, the author explains in detail how to use his flavour matrix, and then for each ingredient lists "best pairings" that don't particularly conform to the information in the matrix, suggesting there is a better, hidden way to determine pairings that maybe we should be informed about in the book.

The kindle edition has pages cut off, you can't read the text on half the pages. The colour/text is illegible in a lot of places, amazon shouldn't be selling this faulty product.

The book is full of charts showing the associations between pairs of flavours. Unfortunately the author's text, commenting on flavour-pairings ignores or flatly contradicts the chart data. Consequently it is useless, except as a colorful coffee-table book.

I find it hard to read the Ebook as the texts badly written works are cut off in pictures. Clashes with colours. Even at 400% it's unreadable.

Seems like an excellent reference book. My one star refers to the Kindle edition. The book has not been formatted to read electronically. You have to zoom in and scroll across to read. In parts the text is in a coloured font on a decorative backround and is impossible to decipher, even zoomed in. The flavour charts loose the impact when zoomed as it is impossible to see all the necessary information at the one time. It is such a pity that the facility to view reviews by format is not available any more, if it was, I could have saved myself the hardship of returning. Yes, buy the book, but in print format.

Fantastic book it’s fascinating I’ve read it from cover to cover it gives you great information about some combinations of spices and recipes