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Wilt it in fat so the sulfur is caught before it burns off.

Starch takes the raw allium hit and turns it into a soup.

Two sulfur sources agreeing. An omelette needs nothing else in April.

Salt and glutamate hold a pesto together where basil would need more.

Resin fat rounds a leaf that is sharper than basil ever gets.

Blitzed into oil it keeps its colour for a week. Raw, it does not.

Same six-week season. The allium arrives green rather than pungent.

Spring meat and spring weed, and the leaf does what a clove would.

Same fortnight, same wet woodland floor. Foraging assembles the plate.

Two green sulfurs peaking in the same three weeks of the year.

Same hedge, same fortnight. Pick both on one walk and cook them together.

Sweet shellfish under a sharp raw leaf, seared and finished cold.

Both are April-sharp. The fruit acid cuts sulfur where lemon cannot.

Blend it raw. The oil traps the sulphur before oxygen destroys it.