The Cooking Gene & MSG

HT to Michael Twitty @koshersoul for this new addition to the kitchen work-top (it replaces boring old, plain, pepper) & to @hels for her great MSG tip, a jar of which also now sits at my left-hand, when cooking.

The first suggestion comes from his really rather wonderful “The Cooking Gene”* whilst the second is from her recent piece in The New Yorker.

* [it has pork in it — amongst many other delights — so that absolutely, 100%, makes this totally needing of a Salute The Pig article. You should immediately go out and buy this. It’s by turns, fascinating, informative and disturbing e.g. when you read that American slaves had been roasted alive in an oven for some imagined failing in the kitchen…]