Commonly used in South Asian and Middle Eastern cooking—though you’ll find them in cuisines across the world—floral extracts (most commonly, orange blossom water and rose water) are made from boiling ...

I hate Vegemite. There, I said it. It’s brown, goopy, pungent—all bad things in my book. It’s not just Vegemite I hate but all yeast extracts (Marmite, its British precursor, too) that are meant to be ...