A Taxonomy of Food

October 5, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on A Taxonomy of Food

Can you imagine what a flavor looks like? Can you visualize or describe what an apple tastes like? Data visualists David McCandless and Willow Tyrer have explored 1,000 recipes from BBC Food and Epicurious to visualize flavor patterns. The result is a series of visualization of complimentary flavors or “infoodgraphics.”

We found this very interesting topic on Forbes in their article, “Infographic Visualizes Complementary Food Flavors.” As a “foodie”, this is very exciting to me. It makes me think of how you describe a color to a blind person. Visualizing the flavors into taxonomies merges both my worlds. I will definitely be checking these out.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.