Beth Ames Altringer Eagle


Award-winning design leader, design engineering educator, and creative technologist.  

How chefs invent by free associating flavor layers


Flavor Fluency: Original Film Series


Project focus:
Flavor Chains: How chefs invent recipes by layering free associations
Why it is interesting: The Flavor Chain is one approach to inventing with flavors
Project it is part of: Most people only ever learn to copy a recipe, if they learn to cook at all. But chefs somehow teach themselves to understand flavor, to prototype flavor combinations, and to invent recipes with it. It is not well-known how they learn to do this, as there is no standard way to learn flavor fluency. This is part of a larger inititaive to understand our felt sense of taste and how to design for it.
Role: Concept, Art Director, Producer
Funding: Harvard University Office of the Provost
Recognition: Premiered at the Cambridge Science Festival
2017

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Founder, Desirability LabAmes Studio
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