Image Credits: Chloe Cushman
Image Credits: Chloe Cushman
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Why do we eat what we eat?
Why do we combine ingredients
in our recipes the way we do?
Food Pairing Hypothesis
Ingredients that taste similar tend to be used togetherin traditional recipes
Ahn et. al, āFlavor network and the principles of food pairingā, Scientific Reports (2011).A Jain, NK Rakhi, G Bagler*, āSpices form the basis of food pairing in Indian cuisineā, arXiv:1502.03815 (2015).
Recipes & Ingredients2543 Traditional Indian Recipes (TarlaDalal)
Regional cuisines: Bengali, Gujarati, Jain, Maharashtrian, Mughlai, Punjabi, Rajasthani, South Indian.
flaā¢vor = smell + taste
Olfactory
Gustatory
Fenaroliās Handbook of Flavor Ingredients
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Western Cuisines
Ahn et. al, Sci.Rep. (2011)
Uniform Food Pairing
Indian Cuisine
Jain et. al, PLoS ONE (2015)
Contrasting Food Pairing
āContrasting Food Pairingā in Indian Cuisine
A Jain, NK Rakhi, G Bagler*, āSpices form the basis of food pairing in Indian cuisineā, arXiv:1502.03815 (2015).
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Original recipes
Herb
Plant
Diary
Cereal/Crop
Nut/seed
Plant derivative
Fruit
Vegetable
Spice
Spices are key to the food pairing in Indian cuisine
A Jain, NK Rakhi, G Bagler*, āSpices form the basis of food pairing in Indian cuisineā, arXiv:1502.03815 (2015).
A Jain, NK Rakhi and G Bagler*, arXiv (2015); A Jain, NK Rakhi and G Bagler*, PLoS ONE (2015).
Best of 2015MIT Technology Review
Molecular Essence
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Food Formulations
Food-Beverage
pairing
Hypothesis Testing
Nutri-Genomics
Food-Disease
Association
ED Sonnenburg and JL Sonnenburg, Nature, 528, 484 (2015).Zeevi et al., āPersonalized nutrition by prediction of glycemic responseā, Cell, 163, 1079 (2015).
Design personalized diet to
lower glucose levels
Gut Microbes
Body Mass Index
Blood tests
Questionnaires
Food diary
Personalized Nutrition
The discovery of a new dish confers
more happiness on humanity, than the
discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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as seen in the canteen of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, circa 1998