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The Flavor Network

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This tool allows you to explore the flavor network, a social graph for flavor profiles. It’s a graphical search tool that helps chefs and bartenders prototype recipes starting just from ingredients, using a concensus of flavor pairings given by The Flavor Bible. Input an ingredient and start navigating through the connections it makes, clicking on suggested items or inputting more into the search bar.

In technical terms, the algorithm employs Jaccard similarity to determine not only which items connect with one another through flavor concensus, but all of those who share the same kinds of flavor pairings. If you’re the curious type, head over to this post for a more complete overview of how this all works.

Here, the same core idea is applied, but with the addition of a recipe module that allows you to quickly cycle through new recipes¹ from your ingredient explorations. This is a great way to discover new dishes, new culinary terms, and navigate cooking at a more elemental level: flavor.

Hopefully, this tool will not only reinforce your instincts about what tastes good together, but surprise you about pairings you haven’t even dreamed about yet.

Email me, Wyatt Brege, at wyatt@brege.org with any suggestions, or find me on Mastodon or Github.

This module uses a kaggle dataset of over 200k recipes from food.com. ↩︎