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Lardo

Back fat cured in a marble trough with rosemary. Butter that used to be a pig.

on its own
0.0sour
1.0sweet
4.0savoury
0.0bitter
2.0umami
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3 of these 14 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

14 pairings for Lardo.

Rosemary

classic

It is cured in the stuff. Pinene stops it reading as only fat.

Piperine is fat-soluble, so it goes where the lardo goes and stays.

Tomato

common

Acid is the only brake on pure fat. Ripe tomato applies it fastest.

Honey

uncommon

On the warm slice: sweet, then salt, then fat, in that order.

Scallop

uncommon

Drape it on the hot scallop and it becomes a basting fat sweeter than butter.

Porcini

uncommon

Fungal earth needs a fat with no flavour of its own to ride on.

Cured back fat melts on warm melon and takes the perfume straight up the nose.

Both are pure aroma carried on fat. Put them in the same bite.

Peach

rare

Fat wants lactones, not acid. Peach is the fruit that has them.

Cockle

rare

Cured back fat melted over hot cockles. The fat carries the iodine.

Pear

wild

Pure back fat melts on warm pear; the perfume rides the fat straight up.

Bitter roast over a fat slick. An affogato that took a savoury turn.

Herbal spirit strips the fat film and leaves the rosemary standing alone.