Off Topic: The Flavour Thesaurus takes food beyond the infinite Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Off Topic: The Flavour Thesaurus takes food beyond the infinite Cook's book. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Published on 9 Nov 2021 "No wonder it's hard to stop grazing on avocados: they taste like grass and have the texture of butter." In 2010, Niki Segnit published The Flavour Thesaurus, a compact and distinctly durable hardback that does exactly what the title suggests it will. It puts flavours together and explains what the most harmonious combinations create. The book is a beauty, silvery board covers and fore-edges stained the warm, watercolour pink of Dragonfruit skin, a tone wheel that is actually a flavour wheel directing your eye. The whole thing's pretty but also hardy - a tool at heart, a book to withstand spattering from the hob. Inside its pages, Segnit has divided ingredients up into flavours like Meaty, Cheesy, and Earthy. And then every ingredient is matched with a bunch of other ingredients. So, if you wonder about whether pea and rosemary go together, you turn to pea, which is filed under Green & Grassy, and you read about the field pea, which is more like a lentil than its close relative the garden pea. You learn that field peas are meatier than other peas, which means they are often paired with ham and bacon, but you also learn that they suit the "woody, eucalyptus notes" of rosemary very well too. You should probably try that combo. Subscribe to Eurogamer to read this article Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 28 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 4 Genshin Impact Path of Gleaming Jade dates, login event rewards Including other anniversary rewards and how to claim them. Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store