FlavorGraph is the largest map food-pairing science has built: a million recipes, 6,653 ingredients. It does not hold the Sarawak larder. This instrument shows where the record fails, and passes those gaps to the communities who hold the knowledge.
Each point is one of the 3,567 ingredients FlavorGraph can place, positioned so ingredients used together sit near each other. Light the dinner to mark the Serumpun menu on the map: some ingredients sit at home, some borrow a proxy position, and some cannot be placed at all.
Each course is read by the FlavorGraph pairings of its ingredients. The line between two courses shows how strongly they connect, and what to do where they do not. Where an ingredient is unseen, it is read through the analogue named in the Larder, not the ingredient itself. Every reading is a proposal, to confirm at the table.
Seen: the graph holds itProxy: only a generic cousin; the terroir erasedUnseen: nothing in the record; the community is the author
Select an ingredient. The instrument reads it against the record: seen directly, seen only as a generic proxy, or not seen at all. Where the record is silent, the reading comes from the Bornean science and the chef, marked as such.
Select an ingredient above.
The evidence, and the gate
Where the record holds no Sarawak ingredient, the instrument does not invent one. It reports the absence, names the nearest evidence where it exists, and defers the rest to the communities who hold the knowledge. Every pairing is a proposal to confirm at the table, not a verified fact. The corpus is unevaluated by its authors’ own account.