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Bitter roast over a fat that carries but never fights. Same continent, too.

Both waxy and milky; the nut is the version with a sulfur edge underneath.

Acid on a fat this saturated is the difference between rich and inedible.

Flakes on the raw nut. Salt is the only seasoning that reaches through the oil.

Oily nut against powdery flesh; the fat is exactly what the fruit cannot supply.

Amazon logic — ester-heavy fruit sits on chalky fat and both go creamier.

Cooked sugar over a nut with no sweetness of its own worth mentioning.

Cane funk and nut oil, both from the same latitude and both a little wild.

Two Amazonian fats from the same forest; the nut supplies the body the fruit lacks.

Two dense Amazonian fats from the same forest floor, closer in texture than in flavour.

Two Amazonian fats, one from a fruit and one from a seed, closer than they first taste.

Shared low sulfur note. Roast them together and it reads as one dish, not two.

Roast bitterness cuts oil the way acid would, without adding any sharpness.

Two Amazon crops that have never shared a pot. Grated nut gives the paste fat and body.

The fruit's sulfury tropical top note is already sitting inside the nut.