Lesson 15 FLAVOR PASTES

What’s a dish without flavor? Isn’t cooking just flavor creating?

If you open my refrigerator, somewhere between the jars of homemade sauerkraut and preserved oro blanco citrus peel, you’ll always find a few flavor pastes, little jars of pure depth. Nearly every old-world cuisine has one: the slow-simmered French mirepoix, the bright Latin sofrito, spic…