THE ART OF FLAVOUR

Best description of how to balance flavor that I've read. The concepts are clearly explained and easy to understand without being overwhelming.

Uncovers the principles of taste, flavor and aromatics. Everything that one wants before going into the chemistry of things

esta en ingles, ya voy viendo que tal esta

Great book, can't wait to read. Amazon fantastic as I had real issues with Hermes the delivery company. No customer service from Hermes. I'm going to avoid using them in future.

Masked in a lot of irrelevant detail and wordy examples are flavour concepts that most experienced cooks will have worked out for themselves. The essence of flavouring food is that you must understand that every human has different sensory responses, particularly taste and smell. What you are trying to do when feeding two will never work as well when feeding twelve! The skilled cook understands this and balances flavours according to some sort of acceptable average based on whatever knowledge they have of those eating their food. I found this book a bit tedious and gave it away to someone with more patience!