plum
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
Rite
Plum blossom opens on bare wood in the cold, which is why it is one of the Three Friends of Winter in Chinese painting and a standing emblem of endurance rather than of spring. Umeboshi in Japan sit in the centre of a white lunchbox as the hinomaru, the flag. In the Balkans slivovitz is the drink of hospitality, funerals and saints' days. The same tree covers perseverance, patriotism and mourning.
Classic Food of China (Yan-Kit So, 1992)
Connections
5 bonds · 5 sourcedSet in bold capitals in The Flavor Bible: very highly recommended by a large number of the chefs it surveyed.
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Score unexamined
Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.
Set in plain type in The Flavor Bible: suggested by one or more of the chefs it surveyed.
The Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)
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, "plum", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/plum
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.