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Paul Prudhomme

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.

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When cooking food that contains acid, adding sugar helps balance the flavor. Heating the food causes the acids to chemically transform into sugar, which sweetens the dish naturally.

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