White tosses the dish with peeled tart grape and teardrop tomatoes and fresh basil leaves.
–During summer and fall, the tart grape and teardrop tomatoes are part of the daily farmer's market haul, but Marea also sources from Lucky's Real Tomatoes, a family-owned growing and distribution business based in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Now he was tweaking its sweetness with spoonfuls of an inky, tart grape-skin purée.
It was this wine and the tart Concord grape, which tastes like its wine (not all grapes do), that started my informal wine education.
Found almost exclusively in Yamanashi Prefecture at the base of Mount Fuji, koshu is a tart, gray grape.
But mangaba is grade-A refreshing, with a sharp flavor that bears a strong similarity to a tart green grape, and araçá evokes both a citrus fruit and a berry as it traverses the tongue.
Then, instead of making the fruit just sweet, I would add spices like cardamom, and some acid -- a little vinegar, for example -- or the tart concentrated grape syrup called saba, and a touch of salt, so it becomes more like a sweet-and-sour relish.
A whiff of marjoram wafts over grilled quail, served with a luscious corn risotto and hot merguez sausage, another perfect match of sweetness and spice, with tart Champagne grapes for brightness.
We drove past a German school and checked out the rye and flaxseed breads on sale in the local supermarket before stopping for some grape tart (5,000 guaraníes a slice) at the Confitería Dulce Arte, a shop where Lucía Portman, the descendant of Swiss-Germans, sells European-style baked goods and locally made sausage.
A rustic chestnut tart with baked grapes and a little ball of Concord grape ice cream also walked the fine line between forward-looking and foolish without wobbling.
The cool climate in Brittany supports apples rather than grapes; tart, not-at-all-sweet bottles of hard cider are on nearly every menu here.
