Malte reviewed Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit
Review of 'Flavour Thesaurus' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
The funniest and most inspiring food writer I've ever come across. This book almost by guarantee makes me want to cook food, just open the book on a random page and start reading, or browsing the pairing sections with some starting point (I have loads of cauliflower and don't know where to take it, or I'm hit by a sudden craving for anchovis and bread and wonder what might go well as a side). The wonderful thing about Segnit is she writes about all kinds of mistakes, ideas that were great in her head but in reality awful, and it just takes cooking down to earth, making it approachable and fun to experiment with. There's something like the "logic to cooking" behind her work, even more so with the companion volume Lateral Cooking. It's a strange time to be alive, when globally less and less people know how to cook …
The funniest and most inspiring food writer I've ever come across. This book almost by guarantee makes me want to cook food, just open the book on a random page and start reading, or browsing the pairing sections with some starting point (I have loads of cauliflower and don't know where to take it, or I'm hit by a sudden craving for anchovis and bread and wonder what might go well as a side). The wonderful thing about Segnit is she writes about all kinds of mistakes, ideas that were great in her head but in reality awful, and it just takes cooking down to earth, making it approachable and fun to experiment with. There's something like the "logic to cooking" behind her work, even more so with the companion volume Lateral Cooking. It's a strange time to be alive, when globally less and less people know how to cook their own, having to spend so many of their waking hours doing wage labor, and at the same time the amassed knowledge and creativity in culinary literature is so high.
