Mauritius Grilled Lamb Chops

For days I had been puzzling over the “secret ingredient”—the flavor that gave Mauritian barbecue its uniqueness, a taste that was sweet but also a little acidic, with an aromatic herbaceous quality you don’t find anywhere else on earth. With a forehead-slapping “duh, ” I realized the answer lay all around me, in the sugarcane fields that stretch from one end of this island nation to the other. Obviously, sugarcane juice is sweet, but it also possesses a grassy acidity that offsets the swee