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vegetablewaxy · sweet-earth · green · mineral · fresh

New potato

Sugar that has not turned to starch yet. Eat them in a week or you just have potatoes.

on its own
0.0sour
2.0sweet
2.0savoury
0.0bitter
1.0umami
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1 of these 21 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

21 pairings for New potato.

Butter

classic

Waxy flesh will not absorb it, so the butter stays a coating. That is correct.

Flaky salt

classic

Crystals on a damp waxy skin give texture the potato cannot make itself.

Warm waxy starch drinks the vinegar; the oil sits in the split skins.

Chive

common

Sharp allium green over a skin thin enough to taste through.

Lactic acid is the seasoning; sour cream does what vinegar would do too harshly.

Lemon

common

Acid on waxy starch stops the plate reading as one long soft note.

Raw and green, it keeps the sweetness of the tuber in the foreground.

Samphire

common

Salt from the plant instead of the pot; the marine note reads as mineral earth.

Chervil

common

Sweet young starch and faint anise; salt is the only other seasoning needed.

Salmon

common

Waxy starch is a plate for the oil to sit on.

Trout

common

Waxy starch and a lean fish. Butter is the hinge between them.

Pesto

common

Waxy and warm, so the oil clings instead of pooling in the bowl.

Waxy starch and warm butter, but with acid, which plain butter never brings.

Capers

uncommon

Salt and floral acid; a smashed potato takes the brine straight into the crack.

Wild garlic

uncommon

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

Caviar

rare

A warm waxy skin holds the roe without cooking it. Nothing else does that.

Gin

wild

Juniper terpenes and young-potato earth sit on the same green resin.