Flavor Fluency Film Series

Flavor Fluency is a series of videos featuring celebrated chefs in the Boston area exploring what it means to develop ‘fluency’ in understanding flavor and designing with it.

Most people only ever learn to copy a recipe, if they learn to cook at all. In the domain of flavor, most of us lack the knowledge to structure our experience in useful ways for ourselves. We approach cooking based on intuition and traditions without understanding the underlying principles that make dishes successful or unsuccessful.

Chefs, sommeliers, brewers, farmers, and cheesemongers have spent decades developing their own methods for deeply understanding what flavors should taste like. They often learned as apprentices or were self-taught, developing the ability to design and compose desirable flavors within their specialty.

The series examines how four professionals use different approaches to ‘think in flavor,’ one dish at a time. This film series is part of a larger initiative to understand our felt sense of taste and how to design for it.