Ms. Techamuanvivit also recommended rinsing bergamots before using them, which helps to tame the intense acridity of the rind.

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The rind is washed and salted throughout the aging process, which lasts anywhere from six months to three years.

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Extracted from the rind, the oil is blended into many perfumes and is a key ingredient in Earl Grey tea.

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Back in my kitchen, I unrolled the meat and scored the rind using a box-cutter, making the lines as close-together as I had the patience for, aiming for about a half inch apart.

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Like Barista Parlor, No 308 also makes regular visits to local Porter Road Butchers and The Bloomy Rind for the charcuterie ingredients on their small plates menu.

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Many of the companies are in the Golden Rind, a swath of land in the flats of the East Bay in the San Francisco area.

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Stir in the orange rind, raisins, and almonds.

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Then another Morton brother, David, 35, unearthed obscure papers from the University of Madras in India and Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan that suggested a connection between the mangosteen rind and xanthones, which have antioxidant properties.

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The Lees took to the streets -- and then a printed catalog and eventually set up a website, boiledpeanuts.com -- selling the peanuts and other regional staples such as sorghum molasses, pickled artichokes and watermelon rind and stone-ground grits to displaced Southerners all over the country.

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He heard that the mangosteen, a tangerine-size fruit (unrelated to the mango) with a hard purple rind and a fleshy white interior, had medicinal properties.

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