“The Vegetarian Flavor Bible”

Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg

Once again, the Flavor Bible format is a weird format to read and then write a review of. The first two chapters, before it got into the A-Z list section, were quite interesting to read! I was, frankly, already sold on a nearly-vegetarian diet, so a lot of it felt like preaching to the choir, but I enjoyed the discussion regardless.

The majority of the book continues to feel sorta like sitting down to read through a Wikipedia category page, and makes for an absolutely dismal epub, but it’s a valuable resource nevertheless. I actually ordered myself a print copy to keep in the kitchen in the future… but depending on how that goes, may wind up putting together a database I can query against instead. Last time I thought of Pokemon type charts; this time, I thought of SQL schema.1

Having now bought this book twice, it’s clear to see that I appreciate it, and as such, that I can recommend it, maybe even more than the original Flavor Bible. Check it out!2

Two tables, basically: the keyword, and then a join table from keyword back to itself, with an additional field on it for the level of relationship between the two. ↩

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