Orange foods taste good together. Maybe it’s my imagination, or just a coincidence. Or maybe it’s the beta-carotene pigment that’s found in all orange foods. But probably not, since beta-carotene has no flavor. It is, however, a precursor to vitamin A, which is good for vision—which will help you see that orange foods look good together. It’s the color of autumn, what’s left in the foliage after the green recedes.
All orange foods contain beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. (Daxiao Productions/Shutterstock)
Ginger, meanwhile, is an honorary orange food. It may not look overly orange, but ginger is a term often used to describe red-headed people. Ginger has a feisty and expansive flavor, like the purported personalities of redheads. And ginger does, for the record, contain beta-carotene. And if that’s not proof enough to affirm ginger’s red reputation, I have a recipe that will….