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fermentadomarinho · catingoso · de carne curada · de sal · queijoso

Garum

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.

Tomate

common

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

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

Mel

uncommon

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

Gema de ovo

uncommon

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

Cordeiro

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.

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