Yoghurt

Lactic acid against a floral sugar that has almost no sourness of its own.

Sour on sour, and the dairy stops the leaf feeling slippery.

Water meets fat and stops being thin. Salt the cucumber first.

Cooling on cooling. Lactic acid keeps the carvone from going toothpaste.

Toasted cuminaldehyde needs a cold sour base or it takes the whole dish.

Lactic acid opens the meat, the blend perfumes it from the outside in.

Lactic acid and cool fat; the Levant has been doing this longer than anyone.

Raw allicin is unbearable in water and civil in cultured fat.

Lactic acid stops honey being one flat note held far too long.

The marinade tenderises nothing, but it makes the spice stick and char.

Sour dairy is the only thing that cools smoke without diluting it.

Lactic and tannic acids run in parallel, and the fat mutes the astringent edge.

Lactic fat rounds an acid that is aggressive raw. Add it late or actinidin thins it.

Lactic sourness is the axis a very ripe mango has lost completely.

Lactic acid does what lime does but leaves fat behind to hold the aroma down.

Lactic tang plus tiny black seeds; the texture is the reason, not the flavour.

Anatolia serves them together in the morning; the acid does what the fruit will not.

Lactic acid does what lemon does but keeps the fat that carries the carotene.

Lactic acid and fat, doing the job of both dressing and cooling.

Lactic acid rounds off the aldehyde edge that makes people flinch.

Lactic acid and carvone are both soft; nothing here has an edge.

Lactic acid catches the citrus half of the leaf and drops the resin.

Lactic acid takes the hard edge off bitterness without diluting the aroma.

Lactic acid plus a saline green leaf: tzatziki logic without the grating.

Lactic acid rounds the bitterness and the seed stays crunchy in the bowl.

Lassi: lactic sourness turns the eucalyptus cooling instead of medicinal.

Two acids, one lactic and one fruit; the powder is the only one you see.

Lactic acid takes the numbing edge off the clove and leaves the warmth.

Two sour notes, one lactic and one fruit, and only one of them is dry.

Lactic sourness against raisin smoke, and the colour bleeds where it lands.

Green carvone over lactic body. Anatolia reaches for this by reflex.

It is the thing that stops pulse purée tasting like wallpaper paste.

Tannin binds to milk protein, so the nut loses its scratch.

Lactic fat catches the capsaicin and the caraway floats up out of it.

Acid clips the soapy edge. This is the fix when you have already put in too much.

Lactic sour is the fastest correction for a grain this sweet.

Lactic acid tenderises the meat and its whey steams the rice.

Lactic acid is the fastest fix for a grain this flat and dry.

Acid dairy loosens the paste and drops the bitterness by half.

Acid dairy keeps the oil tasting fresh; it is the fastest fat to turn.

Sour dairy carries a fat this soft without adding any more weight.

Lactic sourness under fruit sourness. Two acids of entirely different shapes.

Lactic fat binds capsaicin and lets coriander and cardamom through clean.

It dissolves in cold dairy without grain, which sugar simply refuses to do.

Lactic acid is the only counterweight; the syrup brings none of its own.

Lactic acid grounds the perfume. Fat holds it, sourness stops it going cloying.

Lactic acid is the missing axis; the fruit supplies sugar and water only.

Lactic acid brightens the earth note and stains the marinade yellow.

Whisk it in off the heat or the culture curdles on contact.

Lactic sourness plus fermented citrus: two acids, entirely different shapes.

Fermented sweet against fermented sour. Same process, opposite ends.

Hang it over smouldering wood; phenols bind the fat, not the whey.

Two acids that hate everything else. Together they read as passionfruit.

Catechin bitterness against lactic sour brings the tea umami forward.