Karen Page - The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of Americas Most Imaginative Chefs

We dont accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of ones life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something. SANDRA DAY OCONNOR Wed like to thank some of the many people whose invaluable threads helped to create the tapestry that is The Flavor Bible. First and foremost are all the experts who took the time to speak with us at length about the way they approach flavor development and innovation and whose insights in this book will surely inspire the next generation to new heights of creativity in the kitchen. At Little, Brown, thanks to our editor, Michael L. Sand, whose advice and counsel we are both lucky and grateful to have had leading this team. He was not only a trusted sounding board for editorial issues, but his great taste extends from his keen eye overseeing this books gorgeous design to our delectable lunches at restaurants including Alto and Park Avenue Winter. Wed also like to thank the other fabulous folks at Little, Brown, including Sophie Cottrell, vice president and Hachette communications director; Michael Pietsch, publisher; Carolyn OKeefe and Luisa Frontino, publicists; Peggy Freudenthal, Jayne Yaffe Kemp, and Julie Stillman, copy editors; Jean Wilcox, designer; and Zinzi Clemmons, editorial assistant.

Thanks, too, to Karen Murgolo and Jill Cohen, our acquiring editor and publisher, for kicking things off. Many thanks to our inimitable literary agent Janis Donnaud of Janis A. Donnaud and Associates, for sharing her wisdom and her own delicious taste in everything from publisher matchmaking to Moroccan tagines to barbecued spareribs. Photography: Our heartfelt thanks to our photographer and very dear friend, the multitalented Barry Salzman, who created the extraordinary photography for this book. Barry traveled all over to get the right shot and even supplied his own home as a studio. We join Barry in extending thanks to all of the restaurants (and professionals, plus their staffs) who were enormously helpful to us in setting up the photo shoots.

They include: August (Tony Liu), A Voce (Dante Camara), Babbo (Gina DePalma), Bette (Amy Sacco), Casaville (Lahcen Ksiyer), Chikalicious (Chika and Don Tillman), Chinatown Brasserie, Darna (Mourad El-Hebil), Despaa, DiPalo, Essex Street Market, Fairway Market, Formaggio Essex, Gilt (Tobie Cancino), Inside (Charleen Badman and Anne Rosenzweig), Kalustyans (Aziz Osmani), La Esquina, Maremma (Cesare Casella), Saxelby Cheesemongers (Anne Saxelby), Solera (Ron Miller), and the Modern (Gabriel Kreuther). Friends and Family: Thanks to all of those without whose love and support our lives wouldnt be a fraction as delicious: Susan Bulkeley Butler; Rikki Klieman and Bill Bratton; Laura Day, Samson Day, and Adam Robinson; Cynthia and Jeff Penney; Gael Greene and Steven Richter; Susan Davis and Walter Moora; Julia Davis; Blake Davis; Susan Dey and Bernard Sofronski; Valerie Vigoda and Brendan Milburn; Michael Gelb and Deborah Domanski; Ashley Garrett and Alan Jones; Jimmy Carbone and Pixie Yates; Heidi Olson; Deborah Pines and Tony Schwartz; Steve Beckta and Maureen Cunningham; Jody Oberfelder and Juergen Riehm; Julia DAmico and Stuart Rockefeller; Rosanne Schaffer-Shaw; Katherine Sieh Takata; Steve Wilson; Trey Wilson; Stephanie Winston; and everyone else we inadvertently missed. Our DC Outpost: Thanks to our editor, Joe Yonan, and his talented Food section staff at the Washington Post, with which weve been proud to be affiliated since March 2007. Rave: Thanks to all of our friends and family who were among the first online buyers of What to Drink with What You Eat: Craig Atlas, Gerry Beck, Ken Beck, Gregory Bess, Susan Bishop, Bill Bratton, Stacey Breivogel, Susan Bulkeley Butler, Jimmy Carbone, Chris Crosthwaite, Laura Day, Carla Dearing, Mark Dornenburg, Meredith Dornenburg, Amy Drown, Robyn Foster, Ashley Garrett, Steven Greenberger, James Incognito, Alan K. Jones, Rikki Klieman, Laura Lau, Dave Mabe, Susan Mabe, Brendan Milburn, Elizabeth Morrill, Marilynn Scott Murphy, Jody Oberfelder, Kelley Olson, Scott Olson, Juergen Riehm, Ann Rogers, Josh Silverman, Gina Silvestri, Renie Steves, Sandra Suria, Valerie Urban, Valerie Vigoda, Janet McCabe White, and Pixie Yates. Virtual Book Tour: We wouldnt have had as much fun introducing our last book, What to Drink with What YouEat, to the world if it hadnt been for the overwhelmingly warm support of the Web sites and blogs who agreed to host a stop on our Virtual Book Tour in October 2006.

We gratefully thank them for their participation: Sally Bernstein of Sallys-Place.com; Betsy Block of MamaCooks.com; Enoch Choi of EnochChoi.com; Paul Clarke of CocktailChronicles.com; Hillel and Debbie Cooperman of TastingMenu.com; Joe Dressner of JoeDressner.com; Chef James T. Ehler of FoodReference.com; Jeremy Emmerson of GlobalChefs.com; Jack Everitt and Joanne White of ForkandBottle.com; John Foley of AllBusiness.com; Ayun Halliday of DirtySugarCookies.blogspot.com; Robert Hess of DrinkBoy.com and TheSpiritWorld.net; Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com; Meg Hourihan of MegNut.com; IACP Blog Team of international-iacp.blogspot.com (including Ruth Alegria, Scott Givot, Elena Hernndez, Kate McGhie, and Yukari Pratt); David Lebovitz of DavidLebovitz.com; David Leite of LeitesCulinaria.com; Chris McBride and Jennifer McBride of SavoryTidbits.com; Paul McCann of KIPlog.com; Amy McDaniel of MexicanFood.BellaOnline.com; Dave McIntyre of dmwineline.com; Brett Moore of GourmetFood.About.com; David Nelson of Chef2Chef.net; Adam Roberts of AmateurGourmet.com; Derrick Schneider of ObsessionWithFood.com; Amy Sherman of CookingWithAmy.blogspot.com; Cheri Sicard of FabulousFoods.com; Charlie Suisman of ManhattanUsersGuide.com; Lenn Thompson of LennThompson.typepad.com; and Molly Wizenberg of Orangette.blogspot.com. Others Who Got the Word Out: Were grateful to the award-winning host Leonard Lopate of WNYC Radio for being the first journalist to put What to Drink with What You Eat on the map in a big way, and to Executive Producer Jessica Stedman Guff, who turned it into a series for ABCs Good Morning America Now. Where Better Books Are Sold: Wed like to give a special thank-you to Brad Parsons, Lee Stern, and Scott Ferguson, without whom youd never be able to find our books in the nations leading bookstores. And a special thank-you to Barbara-jo McIntosh of Barbara-Jos Books to Cooks in Vancouver, Ellen Rose of the Cooks Library in Los Angeles, and Nach Waxman of Kitchen Arts & Letters in New York City, whose stores are specialty treasures. ... And the Rest: We cant imagine working or living without the seasoned professionals supporting these restaurants, an invaluable source of help and even inspiration to us: Tobie Cancino, Christopher Day, Jason Ferris, and Christopher Lee (Gilt); Heather Freeman (Caf Atlntico); Heather Gurfein and Ryan Ibsen (August); Ron Miller (Solera); Rubn Sanz Ramiro (The Monday Room); Rachel Hayden (The Inn at Little Washington); Michael Poli (Wild Edibles); Heather Ronan and Scott and Heather Fratangelo (Spigolo).

Thornton Wilder wrote, We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. As we think of those who have been there for us with such generosity, we feel very much alive indeed. ANDREW DORNENBURG AND KAREN PAGE
April 2008 P.S. from Andrew Dornenburg: The Flavor Bible is our first book with Karens name listed first on the cover, even though she has always been the prime conceptualizer and writer of all of them. Karen generously suggested before our first book came out in 1995 that we list our names alphabetically a tradition that continued more out of publishing convenience (having all our books alphabetized together on bookstore shelves, for example) than anything else. However, she is long overdue to be properly credited as the primary force behind our work together.