The book follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus. She has scoured thousands of recipes in countless recipe books, talked to dozens of food technologists and chefs, and eaten in many restaurants - all in her quest for flavour pairings. In this lively, easy to follow and exceptionally enjoyable book, Niki Segnit takes 99 popular ingredients and explores the ways they might be combined in the kitchen. The result is a compendium of flavour pairings which offers endless diversion and inspiration. But no such book existed, so she decided to put one together herself. Forming an understanding of how flavours work together, on the other hand, is like learning the language it allows you to express yourself freely, to improvise, to find appropriate substitutions for ingredients, to cook a dish the way you fancy cooking it.' What Niki felt she needed was a manual, a primer to help her understand how and why one flavour might go with another, their points in common and their differences - something, in fact, like a thesaurus of flavours.
As she says- 'Following the instructions in a recipe is like parroting pre-formed sentences from a phrasebook. Now featuring a new foreword by Bee Wilson and a fold-out poster of the flavour wheel, The Flavour Thesaurus is a highly useful, and covetable, reference book for cooking - it will keep you up at night reading.Niki Segnit was inspired to write The Flavour Thesaurus when she noticed how dependent she was on recipes. There are nearly a thousand entries in all, with 200 recipes and suggestions embedded throughout the text. You will find traditional pairings: pork & apple, lamb & apricot, cucumber & dill contemporary favourites like chocolate & chilli and goat's cheese & beetroot, and interesting but unlikely-sounding pairings like black pudding & chocolate, lemon & beef, blueberry & mushroom, and watermelon & oyster. Within these sections it follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus, listing 99 popular ingredients alphabetically, and for each one suggests unique flavour pairings that range from the classic to the bizarre. The Flavour Thesaurus was the first book to examine what goes with what, pair by pair and is divided into flavour themes including Meaty, Cheesy, Woodland and Floral Fruity. A deceptively simple little masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMESĮver wondered why one flavour works with another? Or lacked inspiration for what to do with a bundle of beetroot?
'An eclectic combination of dictionary, recipe book, travelogue and memoir. Such has been the case with The Flavour Thesaurus' NIGEL SLATER 'The books I value most are those I return to again and again. I love Niki's style of writing - packed with knowledge and information, but conveyed with such a lightness of touch' YOTAM OTTOLENGHI Watch out for Niki's long-anticipated follow-up, More Flavours focusing on plant-led pairings - coming in May 2023.
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