American Embers

American barbecue sauce is a regional folkloric tradition — Kansas City sweet-and-thick, Memphis vinegar-and-pepper, Texas mustard-and-coffee, Carolina vinegar-and-mustard. American Embers takes the Kansas City scaffold and reads it through the Spanish-Mexican axis. The base is concentrated tomato and onion, sweetened with cane sugar and miel, sharpened with vinegar and ascorbic acid, seasoned with garlic, ground cumin, sweet pimentón, salt and bay laurel. Chipotle brings the cold- smoke bass and a controlled chilli heat. The sauce lives between the American canon and the Spanish-Mexican kitchen: smoky from two directions — oak-smoked paprika and oak-smoked Chile — sweet from miel and cane, balanced by tomato acidity and bay laurel green.