MOUEEL
EN ⌄
fermentmarine · funky · cured-meat · salt · cheesy

Garum

Rome's fish sauce, resurrected by Nordic chefs who now make it from beef, yeast and grasshoppers.

on its own
1.0sour
0.0sweet
5.0savoury
0.0bitter
5.0umami
order · canon first

2 of these 10 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

10 pairings for Garum.

Rome seasoned with these two and little else. Piperine plus amino acids.

Tomato

common

Free glutamate stacked on free glutamate. A drop replaces a whole anchovy.

Oxygarum: salt and acid in one pour, and Apicius wrote the ratio down.

Beef

common

Brush on before roasting. The surface browns darker and tastes dry-aged.

Honey

uncommon

Roman sweet-salt. The sugar rounds the amines the way palm sugar does.

Egg yolk

uncommon

Fat plus fermented salt makes an emulsion that needs no cheese to taste aged.

Lamb

uncommon

Use it where you would use salt and the roast tastes older than it is.

Sulfurous spear against marine salt; a Roman pairing that Noma quietly reissued.

Isovaleric funk on both sides. The salt lengthens the cocoa considerably.

Shared furanones, and the salt makes the berry read ripe rather than sugary.