Corn husk + Tamale
Corn husk and tamale are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.32) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.28). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Mexican and Tex-Mex staples" mode.
What do these scores mean?
Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.
Ingredients that go well with both corn husk and tamale — candidates for completing the dish.
How this is ranked
Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.