Palate
The Flavor Atlas

Taste type

The Honeyed Heretic

sweet · fruit

You blur the line between sweet and savory — and you like it there.

Your hexagon

The shape your signature makes on the six flavor families — solid is you, dashed is the corpus average.

corpus averageUmami& Savory4.9Sweet& Fruity9.4Sour& Bright3.1Bitter& Earthy1.8Rich& Fat5.4Aromatic& Spice3.0

Who you are

Honey on the cheese board, stone fruit with the pork. You like the seam between sweet and savory, and you use sweetness the way other cooks use spice: a little, on purpose.

What you love

  • Sweetness

    Caramelized onion, roasted squash, ripe pear — sweetness from more places than the sugar jar. It rounds a dish's edges and softens everything sharp.

  • Fruity

    Stone fruit with pork, pomegranate over a stew, apple in a slaw. Ripe fruit where you don't expect it, rounding out a savory dish.

  • Floral

    Rose, orange blossom, saffron, lavender. Delicate and perfumed — a note you use with a light hand.

  • Nutty

    Almonds, sesame, browned butter, tahini. The flavor of things toasted to golden — round, warm, comforting.

How you like to cook

Beyond flavor — the disposition that shapes what lands on your table.

You order the dish you can't quite picture yet.

Dishes you'd love

A few we'd set in front of you — and the closest matches in the corpus.

More dishes, ranked to your palate

Where you'd wander next

The type that shares your territory but opens one new door. A good place to stretch.

The Comfort Alchemist

You turn richness and patience into the food that tastes like home.

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