On: India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlo...

[eigenket]

For anyone who has had their appetite whet for Indian pickles, the book Midnight's Children has pickles as an important secondary plot point, and the vivid description of the pickles in that book have stayed with me for a long time.

[jfk13 → eigenket]

Very much so. Midnight's Children was the first thing that sprang to mind, as soon as I saw the title!

(See also https://books.openedition.org/pufr/3813?lang=en "Midnight's Children or the Pickles of History")

[dilawar → eigenket]

"The god of small things" as well.