Mojo

Garlic, sour orange and hot oil poured over boiled root. Acid is the seasoning.

Sour citrus breaks the shoulder down overnight and the garlic seasons through.

Salt-crusted wrinkled potatoes exist purely in order to carry it.

The sauce is mostly this, pounded raw, so the sulfur is never cooked out.

Bitter Seville juice, not sweet. The acid is what makes it work as a cure.

Fried starch sugar against raw garlic acid. Nothing else cuts it as cleanly.

Earthy seed under sharp citrus. The Canarian version is nothing without it.

Marinate then grill: citrus tightens the flesh, oil keeps it from drying.

Starchy and mild. A spoonful of acid over the top makes it read as a dish.

Grilled tentacle takes raw garlic and acid better than any butter sauce.

Enzyme-sweet flesh against sour citrus and garlic: green papaya salad, relocated.

Bitter cocoa under garlic and cumin is what the earliest moles actually were.

Sour orange and berry share a bright terpene edge; the garlic is the shock.