Building Flavor Brick By Brick

This two-ingredient sauce has a lot to teach us

If you read my veggie burger post, you may have noticed a sexy-looking dollop of something brick red in the photo. That’s what I want to talk about today, both specifically in terms of its making and generally in that it points at a universe of easily assembled and deeply delicious condiments. One of the great glories of fermenting comes when we start c…