James Briscione
Auteur de The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes
Œuvres de James Briscione
The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes (2018) 113 exemplaires
The Great Cook: Essential Techniques and Inspired Flavors to Make Every Dish Better (2015) 10 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1980
- Sexe
- male
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
New York, New York, USA
Pensacola, Florida, USA - Études
- Samford University
- Professions
- chef
- Organisations
- Food Network
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 134
- Popularité
- #151,727
- Évaluation
- 2.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 5
highly rec reading thru some of the critical reviews on amazon, one in particular is more articulate abt the books categorical failings
my issues w the book amount to 2 points: 1) presentism/modernism and eurocentrism, and 2) inconsistent conceptual organization
2) is especially bad, bc the book basically tries to sell itself on its conceptual organization. it occasionally uses categories from botanical science, sometimes from organic chemistry, sometimes from the euro-american culinary tradition; the inconsistency leads to some bizarre issues w navigation, particularly when a single food might technically land under multiple categories that r included in the book, but the book might only list the food under one of those categories. this makes the books conceptual framework and science misleading and useless for organization
1) is a subtler point, but important. for one, the book makes no distinction bw whole and refined grains. for another, beans and legumes r excluded from the book wholesale. yes, you read that correct. one of the most important categories of foodstuff across the globe and throughout human history is excluded, i would imagine bc beans and legumes became less prominent in both american and european diets throughout the 20th century
these two points render the book essentially useless to me. a shame, since the idea is v powerful--like the flavor bible, but w improved data visualization and multiple systems of categorization… (plus d'informations)