Why Do Flavours Go Together?

[Doofus]

Chicken and tarragon.
Fish and dill
Duck and orange
Beef and horseradish
Lamb and mint
etc

Do certain flavours actually, scientifically, go well together, or are we just conditioned to believe that they do?

[shirt]

Try this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Flavour-Thesaurus-Niki-Segn...

Half science half anecdotal, but it’s decent.

[Wills2]

The only one on that list is Lamb and mint for me, you can keep the rest awful combinations.

[Doofus]

shirt said:

Try this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Flavour-Thesaurus-Niki-Segn...

Half science half anecdotal, but it s decent.

Thank you, I'll take a look although my question is actually 'why'? not 'what'?

[shirt]

She goes into that. Some of the science behind it. It’s less of a recipe book, more a discussion that could be started off by your opening post.

I don’t have it to hand so can’t really contribute more.

[Doofus]

Cool, thanks.