Flavor Fluency

From tasting competitions to collaborations with farmers, food scientists, chefs, and technologists, I’ve studied how experts learn to read flavor like musicians read music — a skill that deepens and integrates their understanding of food, land, climate, and culture.

Flavor Fluency introduces the Sensation Alphabet: a 24-code notation system — 11 textures, 6 tastes, 7 aromas — and the grammar that lets anyone learn to read and write what they eat.

Part memoir, part science, part training manual. By the end, you can read a breakfast taco the way you’d read a sentence: fracture at impact, coating level 2, acid cutting through accumulated richness.