Flavor maps

February 28, 2025 8:07 AM

Flavor maps
When I am cooking I like to be creative and just base stuff on what goes together. I have a big list of ingredients and what goes with what (derived from The Flavor Bible among other things). I built some software that lets me visualize the connections across ingredients as maps. It works for me so I decided to put it on the web in case it works for you.

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posted by web5.0 (5 comments total)

[Such a cool idea, thank you for sharing it with us! We've added it to the sidebar and Best Of blog to help others find new flavor routes! ]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:43 AM on March 1 [1 favorite]

I had a lot of fun doing meal planning with this, but found out that swiss chard is ALL ALONE in the flavor map so sad. I was very pleased to discover a very large map for hyssop, which i have a lot of in my garden, but didn’t really know what to do with.
posted by congen at 5:48 PM on March 1

this article on flavour pairings may be of interest if you haven't seen it yet.
posted by juv3nal at 12:49 AM on March 2

This idea is GENIUS! Make my style of cooking [I call it kitchen chemistry ;)] so much easier.
posted by schade at 6:13 PM on March 3

This is very cool, I like how the map layout shows you what pairs with your pairings, and so on. But I think I need a legend, I'm a bit lost as to what the borders and gray lines represent.
posted by dustletter at 4:42 PM on March 8