Halloumi

Cyprus folds mint into the curd itself and the menthol survives the grill.

Salt and fat with nothing to cut them is just salt and fat.

Hot salty squeak against cold sweet water. Temperature is half of it.

Squeaky salt fat takes thymol; the sumac does the job of the missing lemon.

Grill it dry and dress it after. Oil in the pan only burns.

Dried carvacrol takes high heat better than anything still green.

Acid and glutamate against brine. Char both on the same griddle.

Two things that need salt and scorch, cooked side by side.

Squeak, salt and grit. Nothing here is subtle and nothing needs to be.

Sour-sweet syrup poured onto a hot salt block. The Levant finishes here.

Sugar on a squeaky salt brick; chilli stops it becoming a pudding.

Squeaky salt-heavy cheese has no acid at all. This is the correction.

Jam-sweet fruit against a cheese that squeaks. Grill the fig too.

Smoky raisin heat bloomed in oil and poured over the char lines.

Savage acid on hot brine. It reads as a citrus you have not met.