The Secrets Issue was Tamara Vos' last at Oh Comely before leaving us (sad sigh) for a career in food styling. So it seemed too tempting a chance to miss to ask her to style some of your secret ingredients. We'll be serialising the photos and recipe ideas she created with photographer Sophie Davidson during December. 

A stranger introduced Tamara Vos to salted coffee.

Tamara says, "A few years ago when I was working in a cafe, I served a couple two black coffees as they sat outside sharing a cigarette. I asked if they’d like any sugar. “No, salt,” said the girl. I laughed at her joke and walked away. A few minutes later she followed me inside to ask where the salt was. It turned out she’d been quite serious, and that she and her boyfriend like to add the smallest pinch of salt to their daily coffee as it brings out the flavour, much like salt in caramel or chocolate. I have to admit that I haven’t worked up the courage to try it yet, but I love knowing that the option’s there."