Food Starcharts

Food Starcharts are mappings of foodballs along the gastrologic elliptical- cartesian color comparisons of what foods are commonly paired with any two given foods on an X vs Y axis.

Here's a food starchart of everything that pairs with butter vs everything that pairs with olive oil:



These visualizations are from the Food Genome, a big hungry brain that is trying to learn everything there is to know about food.

Here is a food starchart of Thyme, paired with itself -- extending a needle from common pairings (beef broth, mushroom) toward strange ones (buttermilk, cucumber).



See the rest of the set enlarged, with descriptive captions at this Monkeyview Gallery: Food Starcharts.