Alvin Leung

I like using Pat Chun in several ways but the most common one is to pair with tomatoes and Chinese preserved olives because of its sweet taste. I turn it into a sort of Chinese balsamic.

English Chef

Sue Townsend

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

English Novelist

Balsamic specifically refers to a distinct variety of vinegar used in recipes for a sweet and tangy taste.

Culinary Usage

While often paired with vinegar, 'balsamic' can describe other sweet and rich flavors in certain culinary contexts.

Not Always Vinegar

Quality of balsamic products can vary greatly, affecting taste. Traditional balsamic vinegar is highly valued.

Quality Variation

'Balsamic' in botany focuses on natural, often healing, resins that plants like eucalyptus emit.

Natural Resins

The term can evoke a sense of earthiness and nature due to its association with fragrant plant substances.

Fragrant Associations

'Balsamic' in a medical sense suggests soothing and therapeutic qualities, often in herbal medicine.

Healing Connotation

Its use in medicine is older and less common today, replaced by more specific medical terminology.

Archaic Medicine

The word may imply a gentle, calming effect on the body or mind within a medical or therapeutic context.

Soothing Implication

 of what modern progress has made possible for us. This is my supermarket. Not such a big one. I want to say just a word about salad dressing. A hundred seventy-five salad dressings in my supermarket, if you don't count the 10 extra-virgin olive oils and 12 balsamic vinegars you could buy

The paradox of choice PIPE...

 I think for both of us, the flesh on our hands started rotting off. And falling off in big sloughs, and we didn't really know what it was. So we wrote to some tropical disease specialists, and they didn't know what it was either. So we dumped some balsamic vinegar on it,