The Journal

Every label says fermented. No microorganism is involved. What the Maillard reaction does to a bulb over six weeks — and why the word changes what your palate looks for.

Sixty hours of measured persistence, a forty-two hour half-life, and the discovery that the one person who cannot measure garlic breath is the person who ate the garlic.

Thirty hours of persistence at every dose we tested, and a half-life that runs backwards. The full protocol, the results, and the two things we got wrong.

The hundred-point scale, the reference sample that opens every panel, and the rule that disqualifies a whole session if you break it.