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 "id": "santa-maria-salsa",
 "type": "pairing",
 "names": {
  "name": "Santa Maria salsa"
 },
 "region": [
  "santa-maria-valley",
  "california"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "course": "condiment",
  "country": "United States"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Chopped raw tomato, celery, green chilli, onion and a shot of vinegar or Worcestershire — thinner and sharper than a Mexican pico de gallo, and spooned over sliced beef rather than eaten with chips.",
  "how": "The acid is the point: the meat is lean and salty, and the salsa cuts it. That also changes what happens when you drink something with it."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "santa-maria-tri-tip",
   "as": "What it goes on.",
   "rel": "pairing"
  },
  {
   "to": "tri-tip-over-red-oak",
   "as": "Where the acid question meets the wine question.",
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   "title": "Fresh salsa, as the tradition describes it",
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   "license": "ingredients-only",
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    "ripe tomato",
    "celery",
    "green chilli",
    "onion",
    "vinegar or Worcestershire sauce",
    "salt"
   ],
   "note": "ingredients only; proportions differ by household and this project has no free-to-use recipe for them"
  }
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 "confidence": "medium",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "Chopped raw tomato, celery, green chilli, onion and a shot of vinegar or Worcestershire — thinner and sharper than a Mexican pico de gallo, and spooned over sliced beef rather than eaten with chips.",
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   "key": "santa-maria-valley",
   "name": "Santa Maria Valley",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "Bien Nacido, the bench, and the red-oak barbecue on the same ground"
  },
  {
   "key": "california",
   "name": "California",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "from Anderson Valley to the Santa Maria bench, wherever fog reaches"
  }
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   "name": "Santa Maria tri-tip",
   "as": "What it goes on.",
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  },
  {
   "to": "tri-tip-over-red-oak",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Tri-tip over red oak",
   "as": "Where the acid question meets the wine question.",
   "rel": "story"
  }
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   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-salsa-sauce",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Salsa (food)",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=425104",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373777102",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
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   "tier": "cited"
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   "type": "pairing",
   "name": "Santa Maria tri-tip",
   "as": "And what goes on it.",
   "rel": "pairing"
  },
  {
   "from": "tri-tip-over-red-oak",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Tri-tip over red oak",
   "as": "The acid on the plate.",
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  }
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}