Anil Paralkar

• Heidelberg University

In 美食研究 vol. 38, no. 2 (2021): pp. 1-7. Translated by Xiao Kunbing, Li Yiting

South Asian pickles, or achar, were the first processed food to arrive from the subcontinent to Europe. While the earliest European references stem from Portuguese texts of the sixteenth century, evidence of cooking instructions date from the second half of the seventeenth century. Utilizing sources like botanical literature, travelogues, and recip...