What are flavored vinegars?
Many cuisines use flavored vinegars. For example, in Cantonese cuisine, rice wine vinegar is flavored with ginger. In the Philippines, vinegar can be spicy from the addition of chili peppers. Mediterranean cooking can use vinegars flavored with herbs or garlic. And recently, fruit-flavored vinegars, infused with fruits like figs or raspberries, have become popular to use in salad dressings. You can flavor your own by adding a favorite ingredient, such as peeled whole cloves of garlic, or sprigs of fresh thyme or tarragon, or a small amount of whole, dried red peppers, to a bottle of good quality red or white wine vinegar and let it sit for a few days or weeks, letting the added flavor combine with the vinegar.
