Toum is a bold and creamy Middle Eastern garlic sauce

Eight Exotic Ingredients from around the World

Sudi Pigott, 09.03.2022

As culinary cross-cultural, irreverently creative menus grace the tables of more restaurants, here’s how to navigate your way through some of the less familiar ingredients trending now.

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Yes, it is the f word, fermented and aged (up to 60 days) garlic. If beef and fish can be matured and even carrots dry-aged, surely the humble garlic bulb deserves this mature makeover? It requires strictly regulated temperature and humidity to achieve its sticky, sweet consistency.

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