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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe A TASTE OF MOLECULES * _Diane Fresquez_ THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK; 2013. 208 pp. $16.95 I have a confession to


make. Actually, it will come as no surprise to people who have shared a meal with me, but I have a slight obsession with salsa — “The sauce, not the dance”, as Diane Fresquez says in _A


Taste of Molecules_. To me, homemade salsa is the perfect way to celebrate the tang and texture of tomatoes, the sweet crunch of onions, and a variety of flavours unique to each batch that


can almost never be perfectly recaptured. After all, it isn't just the recipe — the relative quantities and method of preparation of each ingredient — that determine flavour, but


flavours intrinsic to that specific jalapeño, or this head of garlic. It's also fascinating to me that different people think so differently about salsa — some love fruit salsas, some


can't eat cilantro, some will eat any salsa without any great discernment or interest that it's different from another kind. Perhaps because there are, at least in the United


States, so many salsa options, I think getting to know someone's salsa preferences gives me a little window into their true personality. This is a preview of subscription content,


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