My daily lunch includes a quarter pound of spring mix salad. If you’re going to eat that much salad, you should really enjoy it and a good dressing makes a difference. For years, I bought Drew’s Tahini Goddess dressing which has great umami and is well balanced in flavor. It’s thoroughly delicious.

In 2022 I started having trouble getting it at my local grocery store and, eventually started having trouble getting it online to the point where I couldn’t find it anymore. In a panic, with a bottle and a half left, I opened a spreadsheet and started reverse engineering the ingredients. The ingredients are listed on the back of the bottle and, generally, these ingredients are listed in relative order of amount contained but, there’s a lot left to figure out with regard to taste and balance for reproducing a mass produced product.