Pantry guide
Best Mastic for home cooking
What Mastic is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
Chios tears — a pine-sweet resin for ice cream, bread, and a glass of water that turns cloudy.
In Turkish cooking, Mastic is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.
Taste Mastic before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.
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