food ⇔ drink : the bipartite graph of perfect pairings

I’ve always found pairings fascinating and exciting. This year I started experimenting more myself, putting together little food-and-drink menus at home. Somewhere in that process, I’ve been building a mental graph. Set A: foods. Set B: drinks. The “edges” are whatever actually works: harmony, contrast, surprise. I used to think pairing was mostly rules but now it feels like learning which nodes in your taste map want to connect, and why.