Italian seasoning + Provolone cheese

Italian seasoning and provolone cheese pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean savory herbs and cheeses" mode.

Pairing scores

Cooks withstrong signal

0.33

Tastes likestrong signal

0.43

Blendedstrong signal

0.68

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.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both italian seasoning and provolone cheese — candidates for completing the dish.

Marinara sauce0.39 Pasta sauce0.38 Fontina cheese0.35 Mortadella0.32 Portobello mushroom0.31 Steak sauce0.30 Alfredo sauce0.30 Turkey sausage0.30

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.

Shared flavor modes

Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.

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