The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs Hardcover – Big Book, September 16, 2008

Wow! I'm an experienced home cook with a large global repertoire that came from a global career and having lived in 3 countries other than the US. This book is going go take my cooking to the next level! The "flavor affinities" and the "dishes" section will give me the confidence to emulate some of the best. Just buy the book if you are interested in food and cooking at a!!.

Book is great!Packaging was trash- the book arrived damaged

Our daughter is a chef and she loves and uses this book a lot. Decided I might as well get one too! Just diving into it today and I love it!

Lovely

Este libro me ha ayudado a experimentar con combinaciones de sabores que nunca hubiera imaginado y ha elevado mi platos a otro nivel. ¡Totalmente recomendado para cualquier amante de la cocina a.

When I first sank my teeth into reading this book I was very confused by the books organization and overall goal, just seemed overly complex for no reason. To the testament of the book I picked it up at 3am, I was a little sleep deprived so my brain was not functioning at full capacity. After reading Ch.1 I decided I absolutely hate the book to the point I decided to return it. In my 10+ years of purchasing things from Amazon I never returned anything. I just made the best out of my less than satisfied purchases. I hated this book so much that returning it seemed like the most vindictive way to get back at the authors for writing it and Amazon for selling it.A few days later I said let me go ahead in initiate this return process which I had no clue how to do. It had nothing to do with the getting a refund as I order so much I just did an account credit. I just didn't want the book in my home any longer. I am in the midst of developing a spice line so when I'm working and I reach for my other resources and I see the Flavor Bible it puts me in an immediate annoyed mood. Trust me on this guys I never had any product affect me to this degree. It was as if the book was giving off bad mojo. Quickly I learned of Amazon's brilliant and convenient return policy and retrieved my return code.I'm the type of person who does my due diligence on anything I spend my money on so I had to second guess why I purchased the book in the first place. I had reviewed and read samples of so many spice books before my purchase and Flavor Bible kept making the cut. It was not adding up. I decided with return code and book in hand about to head out to UPS, let me crack it open and give it another go. It's when I fell in love. It was as if everything in the book represented perfect harmony and balance. It immediately clicked for me that this is a spice dictionary and that's all it is, with examples of how to use and pair the spices just like a word dictionary. From that moment I was able to explore it and test it properly. Anything I thought of in that 5-minute span to want to get insight about I was able to find in the book due to it's alphabetical arrangement.So why 4-stars and not 5? Technically I wanted to give it 3 1/2 but we all know its not possible. The book is awkwardly arranged. Even when you find what you are looking for you have to take care to make sure what you are reading is not referring to something else across the page. The list format is pretty much annoying because it's like okay you have this list, no what? I'm a pretty creative mind and decent cook so the list suggestions is really all I need to get my wheels spinning. However for less experienced cooks and creative minds, its useless. Content arrangement on the pages does not naturally flow. My biggest pet peeve, NO INDEX. For a book of this size 380 pages, it's weird not to have an index. Only a dictionary is this vast with no index. Had it been called a "Dictionary," I would have understood from the beginning how to navigate it.I decided to keep the "Flavor Dictionary," thinking of it in this form will keep me from wanting to slap the authors for calling it a Bible, a bible has an index. I would recommend this book to those persons with some culinary background and very creative mind. Others, you will receive NO guidance on how to use the items mentioned in the book whatsoever.

I love this book!! A must for anyone who loves to cook. Helps to bring new creativity to my cooking. Get it!!

excellent