Fontina cheese + Polenta
Fontina cheese and polenta are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.44) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean savory herbs and cheeses" 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 fontina cheese and polenta — 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.
- Cooks withMediterranean savory herbs and cheeses
- Cooks withItalian-Mediterranean savory cheeses and charcuterie
- Cooks withMediterranean cheeses, herbs & savory staples
- BlendedMediterranean savory pantry staples
- BlendedEuropean savory cheeses and charcuterie
- BlendedItalian antipasto and pasta ingredients
- Tastes likeMediterranean cheeses and savory Italian staples
- Tastes likeTex-Mex casserole staples