When I eat, I need to get all the elements on my plate perfectly balanced in each bite. Cue for me to introduce my latest find, Exploring Taste and Flavour by Tom Kime. This book itself is A perfect bite!

In it, Tom Kime, asks What is good food? Why do some combinations of foods work so well? He then goes on to map how we taste.

Using the Southeast Asian culinary philosophy of combining hot, sweet, sour and salty, he creates a smorgasbord of taste and flavor. Seldom to cookbooks push me to cook recipes the way they are in the book, but I've cooked a lot of the recipes in this books exactly and every single one has been a success.

Exploring tase and flavor has introduced me to new ingredients, combinations and food pairings, that I never imagined possible, but my cooking is the better for it!

In the photograph: The book cover of Exploring Taste and Flavour.