James Briscione with Brooke Parkhurst. The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Bourbon is listed among the best pairings for apple, pear, and quince.
James Briscione with Brooke Parkhurst, The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 186 (local PDF sheet 659).
James Briscione with Brooke Parkhurst, The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 186 (local PDF sheet 659).
printed p. 186 / local PDF sheet 659
Briscione and Parkhurst, Flavor Matrix, 186.
Pome Fruit — best pairings
2026-09-28: Fresh full-text and page-survey check at PDF 659. Pome-fruit pairing remains a practitioner hypothesis with preparation and dose unresolved. Verification concerns faithful source representation, not independent validation. Original source retains a material visual-layout gap.
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2026-09-28: Fresh full-text and page-survey check at PDF 659. Pome-fruit pairing remains a practitioner hypothesis with preparation and dose unresolved. Verification concerns faithful source representation, not independent validation. Original source retains a material visual-layout gap.
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printed p. 186 / local PDF sheet 659
Use
Documents the source’s bourbon–pome-fruit recommendation.
Verification
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Use only for the bounded proposition stated in the linked excerpt. Do not convert a practitioner recommendation or recipe example into a universal scientific rule.