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Memories, gateways to
experience great food.
Multisensorial experiences is a trend in contemporary gastronomy. A unique way to
create these experiences is to trigger ones ‘forgotten’ memories. These memories
are personal and therefore the experience will be different for each of us.
Imagine when you where a child, making a sunday morning walk on the beach with
your parents; There is just enough sun to warm your face, waves collapsing and the
sand shifting beneath your feet, the wind and the salty smell hits your face...
Imagine playing as a kid in the forest where your granddad just cutted some trees.
The smell of fresh cut pine...
The following pages have one objective, to inspire chefs to create memories. Sense
for Taste and Sosa offer chefs two recipes created by means of the foodpairing
method (TM) and carried out with premium ingredients from Sosa. The ‘look & feel’
of the dish, the ‘sound’ of the bite, the colours and the setting will lead to a happy
client with a refreshed memory to a great moment.
Sense for Taste
Sosa
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What is foodpairing?
Foodpairing is a method for identifying what foods go well together.
The method is based on the principal that foods combine well with one
another when they have key flavour components in common.
Almond
Peanut
roaster
Peanut oil
Malt
Basmati
rice
Algae
Mushroom
Broccoli
Artichoke
Cucumber
How does foodpairing work?
Once the flavour components of a particular food are analysed, they are compared
to a database of several hundred other foods & drinks and the results are
represented graphically on a foodpairing tree. The chosen food, for example oyster
is placed at the centre of the tree and surrounded by the best matches.
The length of the branch from the centre to the category is not important, but
within each category, the shorter the branch,the better the match to the chosen
food. For example peppermint fits a bit better with oyster than basil.
Check out more ingredients at www.foodpairing.be.
Tea black
Dominican Republic
white chocolate
Tea green
Soymilk
OYSTER
Olive oil
Peppermint
Basil
Shiso
Chicken roasted
Chicken cooked
Iberian ham
How can foodpairing help your business?
Sometimes the combinations suggested by a foodpairing tree can be as
surprising as they are delicious. Which means foodpairing can lead food
professionals in entirely new directions as they express their creativity.
Bitter orange
peel
Guava
Strawberry
Granny
smith
Brie
Camembert
Butter
Hay
Lindenblossom
Fresh cut
grass
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Oyster
4 oysters (Zeeuwse) _open and clean the oysters
Oyster, gel of apple, cucumber and alga
Cucumber
½ cucumber
Olive oil en rice vinegar
vinegar, roll up
_slice the cucumber in small strips
_marinate in olive oil and rice
Gel of apple
150 g Granny Smith _cut the apples in pieces, remove
the core
100 g water _mix the apples with the other
ingredients and cook
15 g sugar _cover with plastic foil and let cool down
30 g InstantGEL _put for 24 hours in the fridge
/ l apple infusion _sieve, bind with the gelatin and stand to form a gel
Sand
100 g wild puffed rice _grind the puffed rice with the alga
Alga in powder
_mix with the seawater in powder
Seawater in powder
_add the Alga flavour
Alphabet of sea: Alga
Marinated alga
10 g dry wakamé _soften the wakamé in water
2 dl chucavinaigrette _marinate in the vinaigrette
For the chucavinaigrette: mix 210 ml soy sauce, 150 g sugar,
240 ml chicken stock, 40 ml sesame oil, 25 ml wasabi,
190 ml water, 80 ml vinegar, 65 ml rice vinegar
and 15 g roasted sesame seeds
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Pine forrest ///
milk ice with pine, powder of chocolate,
pine nuts, spongecake
Spongecake
80 g pine nuts _grind the pine nuts together with the sugar
80 g sugar _add the eggs one at the time
4 eggs _add the flower and mix
20 g flower _put aside the batter for at least 12hours
green olive colouring powder
_sieve and put in a siphon (2bombes)
copper colouring metallic
_fill a cardboard cup (add incisionsinto the bottom) 1/3 with the batter
Alphabeth of forests:
_cook in the microwave 55” 900 Watt
Moss flavour
_let cool down and remove from the cups
_tear apart into smaller pieces
_melt some cocoa butter, add some colorant
_spray coat the spongecake pieces with the coloured cocoa butter
_just before serving add some moss flavour
Milk ice with pine
525 g milk _mix milk, milk powder and sugar
150 g cream _heat the mixture until boiling
40 g milk powder _add cream and pine flavour
125 g sugar _let cool down, put in a pacojet container and freeze
Alphabeth of forests: Pine
Chocolate powder
120 g Belcolade “ Uganda 80% “ _melt the chocolate on 40°C
40 g Maltosec _mix with the Maltosec until a powder is obtained Pine
Pine nuts
50 g pine nuts _fry the pine nuts in a pan
Crumble of walnut & juniper berry
130 g flour _mix all ingredients
35 g walnuts _bake in an oven 180°C (mix at regular intervalls)
35 g sugar _cool down
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85 g butter
40 g sugar
0,6 g grinded juniper berry Extra: make pine needles in white chocolate, paint in green. 9

The Alphabet of Flavor
The Sosa flavor box is a collection of edible aroma’s for chefs.
The main objective of the box is to improve the sensorial experience of the food.
Therefor the Sosa ingredients & flavor box are the perfect tools to create
delicious ‘memories’. The flavor box stimulates the creativity of the chef.
Flavors are strengthened and it completes the recipes.
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Sft is a foodlab specialised in foodpairing.
The core of Sense for Taste consists of 3 people. Bernard Lahousse;
scientist & foodpairing expert; Johan Langenbick, product developer
and top chef Peter Coucquyt, a former Michelin star holder.
Sense for Taste identifies scientific methods
to create new taste experiences.
To collaborate with us, please contact
Sense for Taste
Johan Langenbick
Nijverheidsstraat 7 / 8310 Brugge / Belgium
T +32 50 36 75 00
Johan@sensefortaste.com
www.sensefortaste.com
Sosa is a supplier of premium ingredients for chefs.
Sosa is the prefered parter of Sft for the creation
of new taste experiences.
For information on our products please contact
Comercial Artesana / Sosa, S.L.
Ctra. Granera 11 - 08183
Castellterçol / Catalunya / Spain
T +34 938 666 111 / F +34 938 666 094 / sosa@sosa.cat
www.sosa.cat
Foodpairing is a registrated brand from Sft.