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 and coffee supply roasted and toasted aroma links in a fennel-and-plum dessert.
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), 109 (local PDF sheet 404).
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), 109 (local PDF sheet 404).
printed p. 109
PDF sheet 404
Briscione and Parkhurst, Flavor Matrix, 109.
Fennel recipe
2026-09-28: Fresh text verification at PDF 404 and ingredient list 406. These pages render blank in this reflowed copy, so fresh visual confirmation is NOT claimed. Bourbon is added off heat; alcohol removal and actual roasting in bourbon are not established. Verification concerns faithful source representation, not independent validation. Original source retains a material visual-layout gap.
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2026-09-28: Fresh text verification at PDF 404 and ingredient list 406. These pages render blank in this reflowed copy, so fresh visual confirmation is NOT claimed. Bourbon is added off heat; alcohol removal and actual roasting in bourbon are not established. Verification concerns faithful source representation, not independent validation. Original source retains a material visual-layout gap.
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PDF sheet 404 / printed p. 109
Use
Documents a bourbon application using roasted and toasted aromatic links.
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Use only for the bounded proposition stated in the linked excerpt; do not convert a practitioner heuristic or recipe example into a universal scientific rule.