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How to craft an easy menu with science

How do you ensure a knockout meal? You could rely on outdated recipes from faded cookbooks, or you could harness science to construct a flawless menu that also happens to be a breeze to make.

I undertook this mission after picking up "The Flavor Matrix" by James Briscione, who "collaborated" with IBM's famous supercomputer Watson, the same creation that thoroughly embarrassed the human race on "Jeopardy!" back in 2011. Using flavor-pairing theory (something that apparently exists), the two cataloged the quantities and concentrations of certain aromatic

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