Finding Flavor Notes in Food

Wine can have flavor notes like leather or vanilla or minerals. Local, seasonal food can also have distinct notes of flavor. And those notes can lead a cook to come up with unexpected food combinations. That's how the chef at Seattle's Canlis restaurant develops his specials. Jason Franey moved here last December and has since discovered that the sky is the limit when it comes to flavor in the Northwest. Jason talks with KUOW's Megan Sukys about how to identify flavor notes and a few creative combinations he's developed — like watermelon and geoduck.