At Danube last week, the artichoke hearts were a revelation: they had a pure taste, with none of the acidity that comes from soaking in lemon water to keep them from darkening, and they were free of that characteristic brassy aftertaste.
Although these adhesives are strong and permanent, the heat and acidity that comes with using them will ruin your photographs over time.
Whether light or heavy, if the wines had enough acidity they came across as lively and vivacious.
If on Easter Sunday a fish course precedes the ham, Paumanok's 2000 dry riesling ($15), with its squeeze-of-lemon acidity, can come into play.
The acidity, she says, comes from tiny drops trapped in the salt deposits, which were left behind when the lakes evaporated.
Yet like wine, beer is acidic, which comes in handy when you're baking quick bread, cake or fried foods, because you need a little acidity to activate baking soda.
It typified what I was looking for in a classically styled Valpolicella, with a structure that comes from acidity rather than oak and a delicacy that, with the wine lightly chilled, might go well with seafood.
Then comes the acidity: juicy tomatoes in the summer; fizzy, funky fermented tomato purée in the winter; and, always, some julienned beetroot — not too much, and only the light-colored borshevoy buriak, which grow in the sandy soils of southern Ukraine.
Prosaically, it's a freshness that comes from lively acidity.
There, the fruit struggles to ripen each year, but retains a freshness that comes from sufficient acidity in the grapes.
