Mayonnaise

Egg fat holds the perfume that would otherwise fade in ten minutes.

Emulsified fat is what makes raw garlic survivable in quantity.

Sweet shellfish has no fat of its own. This supplies the entire body.

Poached tail, emulsion, split roll. Nothing else has ever been required.

Emulsion carries brown meat into white. Without it the two never meet.

Warm starch drinks the emulsion in; cold starch only wears it.

Yolk on yolk. The sandwich holds because the fat is the same fat, twice.

Canned fish is dry and salty. The emulsion re-wets it and rounds the salt.

Fat spreads the burn across the whole tongue. The default sandwich upgrade.

Bland enough to emulsify without shouting. Olive oil would turn it bitter.

Eastern Europe builds every salad on this. The oil contributes texture only.

Fat blunts the bitterness and lets the perfume through. Nothing else does both.

Emulsified fat clings to a leaf too smooth to hold vinaigrette.

Emulsified fat clings to a smooth stem that a thin dressing slides straight off.

Emulsified fat spreads the smoke thin and makes it a spreadable condiment.

Emulsified fat carries turmeric and mutes the dust in one move.

Chopped into the emulsion, the brine keeps the egg fat from going flat.

The emulsion is fat and egg. Everything sharp in tartare sauce is this.

The emulsion carries the seeds so they land evenly instead of in clumps.

Salted punctuation inside a fat that has nothing to interrupt it otherwise.

Citric acid thins the emulsion and lifts the coating off the palate.

Cold poached breast is dry and bland. The fat is doing all the seasoning.

Steamed spears want fat and acid at once, which butter cannot manage.

Fry sauce. Fat plus acid plus sugar, and nobody has improved the ratio.

Egg fat emulsifies the heat so it spreads instead of spiking.

Smoke dissolves into oil, so the paprika reads deeper than it does dry.

Aromatic citrus oil sits in fat far better than citrus juice ever does.

Fat tames the volatile hit and makes it last past the usual two seconds.

Dried-fish inosinate on egg fat. Japanese mayonnaise is built for this.

Earthy sugar under a wall of fat, with vinegar as the only thing holding it.

Two emulsions, one savoury. Cocoa butter and egg fat set at the same point.

Fat mutes acid and pushes furaneol forward. Uncomfortable, and it lands.