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Article: balsamic VINEGAR
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- Vegetarian Times
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Let this flavor genie out of the bottle-and into your cooking
Barely two decades ago, balsamic vinegar sped into American kitchens taster than a Ferrari on an autostrada, becoming the first choice in vinaigrettes and displacing red wine vinegar in just about every other recipe. Fittingly, Modena, the same Italian region that gave birth to the Ferrari is also the birthplace of balsamic vinegar, first referenced in an 11th-century letter from the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
There are really two types of balsamic vinegar: the sweet but sharply acidic variety that you find at the supermarket, and aceto bahamico tradizionale, the slowly aged traditional balsamic vinegar trom either Modena ...