[Sca-cooks] Sugar beets

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Why upstage me? My big gripe about modern cooking, is that modern folks, if
> they think something doesn't taste good, add sugar and/or salt to it,
> instead of balancing the herbs and spices or <horrors> cooking it properly.

One of the things I was taught, late in life (because my mom stopped 
having time to teach me to cook after I was about 13), was that a 
*small*, i.e. _spice_, quantity of sugar or salt can fix a flavor blend 
that isn't meshing, because both are flavor intensifiers. I still do 
this, and find that the spices of sugar and salt are definitely among 
those that can improve a spice blend. 

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