Gift Box
Profile Box — The Citrus Hunter
For the palate that opens every dish with a bright, lifted note.
$95
For the palate that opens every dish with a bright, lifted note. Built for the palate that hunts brightness — the cook who wants every bite lifted, never heavy. Timut, the Nepalese pepper, throws an almost cartoonish ripe-grapefruit note: grate it as a finish over a sea bream…
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Pepper · Pepper cousin
Timut Pepper
Eastern hill districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalchok, Nepal
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Pepper · Pepper cousin
Sansho
Arima, Wakayama Prefecture, island of Honshu, Japan
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Pepper · Berry
Tasmanian Pepperberry
Tasmania, temperate rainforest understory, Australia
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Spice · Spice berry
Sumac
Aleppo and the coastal mountains, plus neighboring Lebanon, Syria
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Vinegar · Raw cider vinegar
Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
Vermont (US) · Herefordshire (UK), traditional cider-apple country, United States / United Kingdom
The gift box in detail
Built for the palate that hunts brightness — the cook who wants every bite lifted, never heavy. Timut, the Nepalese pepper, throws an almost cartoonish ripe-grapefruit note: grate it as a finish over a sea bream tartare, a lemon sorbet, a steamed cod. Sansho adds the citrus-camphor note and the slight numbing that resets the mouth for the next bite. Tasmanian pepperberry, fruity and faintly tart, gets crushed over ceviche and pickled onion. Sumac, the Levant's ruby acid, stands in for lemon on lamb and hummus. Raw cider vinegar is the base for citrus vinaigrettes — grapefruit juice, cider, oil, sumac. The box ships with five citrus-plus-condiment pairings and a signature tartare recipe built on four citrus-edged spices. The catch: Timut's grapefruit is in the volatile oils, so it vanishes the instant it hits heat. Grate it raw, at the table, over the finished plate — cook it into anything and you've paid for an expensive black pepper with none of the citrus that's the whole point. For the cook who thinks a dish without a bright edge isn't quite finished.
“Five condiments that share a sharp citrus note — for the palates that hunt freshness.”
Who & when to give it
Recipients
- curious cook
- home cook
- traveler
Occasions
- christmas
- birthday
- housewarming
Budget
$80 – $140
Level: intermediate
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