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Friday, November 23, 2007

LAUNCH NEW WEBSITE FOODPAIRING.BE


With proude we present you the of launch our free accessible foodpairing website which contains now 80 food products and their pairs.

- FOODPAIRING -

“Food combines with each other when they have major flavour components in common.”

A list will be made of 250 food products each with their major flavour components. By comparing the flavour of each food product eg strawberry with the rest of the food and their flavours, new combinations like strawberry with peas can be made. The way to use is, is just to select a food product like strawberries. You will get a plot where you have strawberry in the middle surrounded by other food products. Take one of those other food products and try to make a new recipe by combining those two. The more flavours food products have in common the shorter the distance between the food products.

- FOOD IS INTERCHANGEABLE -

A food product has a specific flavour because of a combination of different flavours. Like basil taste like basil because of the combination of linalool, estragol, …. So if I want to reconstruct the basil flavour without using any basil, you have to search for a combination of other food products where one contains linalool (like coriander), one contains estragol (like tarragon),... So I can reconstruct basil by combining coriander, tarragon, cloves, laurel. The way to use it is to take from each branch of the plot one product and make a combination of those food products.

- REMARK -

This is just a tool to inspire you. You still need as a chef the craftsmanship, the experience,…to translate this inspiration into a good recipe. It is not only mixing two components together. The balance between the two is important.

Good luck!



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Send us your foodpairing recipe:
[recipe@foodpairing.be]

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3 Comments:

Blogger Frank said...

Realy, realy great website!
I have been surfing the web for some structural information on this topic, but your website is absolutely the best at the moment.

4:56 PM  
Blogger Roberto N. said...

I'm looking forward to using this site as a source of inspiration, I'll be sure to send you recipes!

6:23 PM  
Blogger Beng said...

My take on this from a few years ago:

http://www.holyshallot.com/

It needs an updating for sexy Flash-ness, but it's still useful for now.

9:49 AM  

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