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One of the Google finds for the word ‘pickle’ claims that this form of food was originally practiced in Mesopotamia 4000 years ago. It also says the word ‘pickle’ is rooted from Dutch ‘pekel’. You won’t find a lunch plate in South India without a spoonful of pickle. While pickle is generally made with lemon …

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Neithal, a Thamil word, means act of binding two things together and the resultant is constructive. Interestingly Neithal is also one of the five land types as per Tholkaappiam. In that context Neithal refers to the land of seashore. On a parallel thread, the biggest food challenge faced by every human race across globe in …

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