Sauces & Marinades

Mediterranean cuisine has found widespread popularity due to its healthful connotations and fresh flavors. TABASCO® brand Habanero Sauce can add bold, flavorful accents to many Mediterranean dishes. “The Indian date, also known as a tamarind, regularly surfaces in Mediterranean cooking,” says Jason Gronlund, executive corporate chef. “The tree-grown fruit contains a sour-sweet pulp that, when dried, becomes extremely sour. TABASCO ...

In Japan, sweet and savory snack foods, called osaki, are teatime accompaniments, nibblers with cocktails, and snacks for after school or while watching television. Unlike American snacks, Japanese snacks tend to be healthier, because they are generally not fried, and are made from rice, soy, vegetables, seaweed, fruits, nuts, beans and seafood. Flavorings include soy sauce, wasabi, curry, green tea ...

Condiments enhance flavors and textures and permit instant customization of foods. Every cuisine has its typical condiments, developed through time to mask, enhance and ultimately make craveable foods. Condiments can include both dry mixtures and sauce-like blends. Some dry mixtures blend herbs and dry seasonings like smoke flavors, salt, dried cheese or chiles, or other flavors. Some wet condiments add ...

Thomas Paine said: “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” And while he said that in reference to the American Revolution, getting ahead of the game seems to be just as important in product development, especially in the identification and development of successful flavors. “There is so much competition among our customers and across the food chain that we ...

Flavor modulation sounds like an esoteric principal, but truth be told, we all have a touch of the flavor chemist in us. Even my mother betrayed an unwitting knack for the flavorist’s art in her scheme for making my siblings and me eat our vegetables: Just douse them with ketchup. As a flavor-masking technique, her “ketchup offensive” was a bit ...