Vinegar may figure prominently in nouvelle cuisine, but it is far from new. In fact, vinegar is one of the world's older food products, discovered thousands of years ago when some wine, left out too long, went sour. Hence its name; in French it means "soured wine."

In some respects, vinegar can be considered the ultimate in recycling - it makes good a product that has gone bad. The vinegar base may be wine, grain, rice, molasses, fruit, honey or even coconut that has undergone two fermentation processes. The first turns natural sugars into alcohol; the second turns the alcohol into acetic ...

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