Science in the Kitchen-May 2025 : The Hidden Chemistry of Turkish Cuisine: When Tradition Meets Molecular Pairing

Dear readers, you may have noticed that over the last few months, my posts have focused on new developments in gastronomy. This month, we will examine gastronomy from a chemical and mathematical perspective. As you know, gastronomy is an interdisciplinary field, so it is natural for it to draw from chemistry and mathematics. In addition, our research article testing the food pairing hypothesis in Turkish cuisine using computational gastronomy (Doğan & Değerli, 2023) was published in a high-impact scientific journal. In this article, I will discuss the concept of computational gastronomy, the food pairing hypothesis, and the main findings of our study.