How does one "build flavour"?

Post date: 2021-03-05 09:58:44

My wife and I both like to cook and we're pretty good at it, at least as far as following recipes, learning new techniques, etc. We can even improvise a bit here and there. But...

...what we're really missing is a good understanding of flavour. We know it when we taste it but we're not really sure how to create it on our own. As in, given a random assortment of ingredients and spices we wouldn't necessarily have any idea what would go well with what or how to combine everything into a coherent dish. So, we're looking for books, videos, whatever to help us develop those skills.

What we're not looking for are specific recipes. We've got lots of those. What we want is more theoretical, "this is how you use spices to layer flavours," and, "these flavours tend to go together but those ones don't," etc.

Basically, we're good at the day to day, nitty-gritty mechanics of cooking but would like to up our game with a bit stronger foundations.

Many thanks in advance!

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