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Grape Focaccia with Rosemary

It was a 87 perfect degrees in New York City today and I spied an actual pumpkin at the farmers market. I love this time of year, when you expect it to feel like fall but it decidedly does not; it’s like Bonus Summer: cool enough to bust out cardigans at night but warm enough it feels too soon to audition any of the heavier dishes to come this winter. I’ve been gushing over what Sam Sifton called “valedictory meals” in — “fall dinners pretending to be summer ones” — and I imagine that wedges of focaccia baked with a grape you can only find this time of year, a roasted tomato salad, many formats of cheese and a lush glass of pink wine would nicely fit the bill.

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 121 recipes mention both. Both carry 1,8-cineol, which smells eucalyptus, camphor. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By smittenkitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Grape + rosemarytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1,8-cineol (eucalyptus, camphor).

  2. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Olive + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,604 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-2-hexenal (grassy).

  4. Milk + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Milk + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs