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By Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
Published 1996
Cooking is like matrimony—two things served together must match. —
Only when you understand and respect the essence of an ingredient can you properly come to enhance its flavor through cooking. This takes place in two primary ways: through the application of cooking techniques which serve to change (and, one hopes, enhance) the characteristics of an ingredient, and through combining flavors harmoniously and even synergistically with other ingredients whose properties serve to enhance one another.