oregano
Cultural layer
Origanum vulgare L. (Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, accessed 2026-10-04)
The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson, 1999)
Nina Martyris, GIs Helped Bring Freedom To Europe, And A Taste For Oregano To America (NPR, The Salt, 9 May 2015)
My Greek Table (Diane Kochilas, 2018)
Route
PendingThe routes are written. They are not yet mapped.
This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.
1 of 409 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype
- Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
- Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
- Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
- Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
- Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence
Connections
11 bonds · 10 sourcedA Holy Grail pairing in The Flavor Bible's own terms: its top rank, the one or two percent of pairings its experts named most.
Read from the entry for oregano in the 2008 edition.
Recado rojo, with Mexican oregano.
Read in Los clasicos de la cocina mexicana, page 72, oregano in the rojo antiguo tabasqueno, and page 82, where the book specifies Yucatecan oregano, of large dark leaves, beside the achiote; the cited Diccionario Enciclopedico was not the book in hand.
Adobo arequipeno.
Read in Acurio's ¡Buenazo!, 2017, page 244, the adobo arequipeño, chicha, ají panca, garlic, huacatay and oregano; page 134, the adobo of pork belly; the cited Peru: The Cookbook was not the copy in hand.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for marjoram in the 2008 edition.
Score unexamined
Score unexamined
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for tomatoes in the 2008 edition.
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for oregano in the 2008 edition.
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
Read from the entry for chile peppers, in general in the 2008 edition.
Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place. Witness means the pairing is the place's own and the reference documenting it was written from outside.
The score is cultural weight: how central a pairing is in the tradition that documents it. It is not a prediction of how two materials behave in a formulation and not a measure of chemical affinity. The scale is ordinal, because centrality is a judgement rather than a measurement: 1.0 where the pair is the dish, 0.9 a fixed named form, 0.8 a canonical dish, 0.7 recurrent across many dishes, 0.6 common, 0.5 attested, 0.4 marginal or compound-led.
Each score is set against a named dish and carries that dish in its note. Where a score has not been examined it says so, because an inherited figure and a researched one should not look alike.
The dish is named by a reader who knows the cuisine and cites a source appropriate to it. It has not yet been confirmed inside that source page by page, so a note records what supports a score rather than what has been checked in the book.
Studio Culinar-E, "oregano", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/oregano
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.