This little appetizer carries the heaviest load in the entire corpus, and it is four ingredients long. Its main ingredient is boiled edamame, and the catalogue’s search must never, ever confuse the word boil with the word oil. Somewhere across the site, its partner in the search pair is sitting in a bowl of actual olive oil, waiting to be found. This one must not be.
As a snack, of course, it needs none of this justification. Boiled edamame with flaky salt is the rare bar food that is also a vegetable, the thing you order while you are deciding what to order, and then order again.
Salt last, salt loud
The flaky salt goes on hot pods, at the end, in flakes big enough to notice. Fine salt dissolves into the steam and vanishes; flakes sit on the pod and meet your fingers and tongue first. In a two-ingredient recipe, the last ingredient is the garnish, the seasoning, and the point.
