I'm blown away by this concept! Each category of the cookbook has pairings of 3 main ingredients, and a few recipes with those pairings. The coolest part though is a little chart that comes with each pairing that lists the flavor profile of the ingredient, a tip or fun fact, substitutions, and other ingredients that compliment it well.

This book is perfect for my level of cooking skill: I'm at the point now where I want to experiment with gourmet concepts and mature palettes, but it is hard to know how to adapt fancier recipes with ingredients that I'm not too familiar with. So like I said, this book is perfect because it teaches you how to pair, adapt, and substitute. I'm going to be playing with this book for a few weeks to decide if I'd like to buy it. Either way, I'm looking forward to learning.