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I love this site. It also tells you what you can replace a food with. I can't tolerate soy, and I am frustrated with what to replace it with (other than salt) in recipes. I tried the replacement feature and the only replacements were Iberian ham and tomato!

Very interesting. There was a book in our best of 2010 cookbooks roundup with a similar idea, called the Flavour Thesaurus: http://www.flavourthesaurus.com/ - it also looks quite intriguing.

I've created a 'websites' category now since there are so many interesting online food resources we could discuss.

There's also this:
http://www.amazon.com/Flavor-Bible-Essential-Creativity-Imaginative/dp/0316118400

This is by same couple who wrote Culinary Artistry and What to Drink with What You Eat -- two books I liked a lot ... I found the info in the above to be a bit repetitive of what they'd already written in Culinary Artistry so I didn't buy buy it -- but it has a ton of good information.

I own Culinary Artistry too - also because I wanted to use it as a basis for something similar to what they did on foodpairing.be, but gave up halfway through - it was soo much typing!

@Sieburp, that does make sense. Soy sauce is also umami, just like tomatos. Still, only two ingredients? Hmm. What about concentrated stock? Dried shrimps or shrimp paste? Japanese dashi?

@Andrew Thank you!