— Karen Araujo

The flavor Bible was exactly where I was gonna go to. In fact, uh, Shar our um, person who handles our Instagram just recently asked me this and the flavor Bible is one of my favorite kind of go-to, uh, flavor development books. It's not really a cookbook, but it does tell you kind of what flavor combinations match with each other very well. Now the flavor matrix does kind of that similar thing. So I think those are two really, really good places to be able to start part, pardon, pardon me with your flavor combinations now, your food pairing. I think that that's something that, um, you know, can happen out of those two. But as far as looking at different cookbooks to do that, I think you're gonna get a wide variety of different inspiration depending on the books you're looking at. So, um, you can see what kind of flavor profiles fit with each other just by seeing some of the dishes and the recipes that they're putting together. So you might get inspired by something in say, like a Mexican cookbook and you might find something like Lime and Kuma, which a lot of people don't u use hikma as much. But, uh, pairing lime with Hikma is a great way to be able to kind of get a bold flavor out of Hickma, which is known more as a very mild flavor as well. So, um, kind of increasing that out. In fact, I knew a teacher who would often, uh, put lime juice and cayenne on hi for her students to help them get away from the whole talkie thing where it was just, it was really sour and really spicy and that's what she did to try to get them off of those. But, um, going through some of just your favorite cookbooks that you already use and pay close attention to the ingredients that they're using in each one of those to see what flavor, what flavor profiles fit together well.