This impressive infographic from Kit Stone shows 'How to Recreate 36 World Cuisines with Three Spices.' The simple spices and ingredients include kitchen basics such as cumin, cinnamon, cloves, rosemary and onion, but the real flavors of a country start to come out when you get the right three together.
To capture the essence of French flavors, it's as easy as combining things like wine, basil and garlic. For Greece, it's a fresh and zesty mix of lemon, olive oil and oregano. There are even some combinations for Louisiana, Hawaii and the Midwest. Who knew that it was so easy to boil down some of the most delicious flavors from all over the world into such simple combinations?
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Simplified World Cuisine
- Opportunity for creating simplified world cuisine recipes using a limited variety of spices.
- Essence of Flavors
- Opportunity to explore and capture the essence of different cuisines by combining specific spices.
- Flavor Infographics
- Opportunity for designers to create visual representations of flavor combinations for easy reference.
Where This Applies
- Food and Beverage
- Disruptive innovation in the creation of simplified world cuisine recipe kits or spice blends.
- Cooking and Recipe Apps
- Opportunity for developers to incorporate the flavor combinations from the infographic into cooking and recipe apps.
- Graphic Design
- Opportunity for graphic designers to create visually appealing infographics that simplify complex flavor combinations.
