This yen for real food is emerging, in part, as a longing for essential flavor.

It's like a dish that needs a couple of essential flavors or you just are not going to want to eat it.

Also, I think a slight tanginess is part of its essential flavor.

But its essential town-meeting flavor is not all that different from the videomaton.

Fish and meats are braised, poached or roasted just until their essential flavors come forward.

With great fish, that usually means cooking it simply so that the essential flavor remains the most powerful element of the dish.

The essential flavors that make it a Romanée-Conti will be lost.

The most common ways of cooking cauliflower - steaming or blanching - keep its essential flavors intact.

Anyone who grew up in a rural landscape will recognize the essential flavor and texture of this film's small-town setting.

No need for fire roasted, in my opinion - the smokiness isn't an essential flavor for arrabiata.