Nothing so sweet as sour

By Cynthia Nelson

Hi Everyone, A few weeks ago a regular reader of my column and blog asked me what a sour is, and the question made me pause. I know how to make sour, I know how we use sour but how does one explain what a sour is?

Some of the answers I was tempted to blurt out were: “a sour is something we eat with things like cassava balls, phulourie, biganee, egg balls, black pudding, channa and so on”; “A sour is something we make with tamarind, mango or souree”; “A sour is something sour”.