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Worcestershire Sauce = Garum ???
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I'd go with Chinese or Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce personally. Yea, you can use anchovies, but do you really want to ferment them and see what happens? :? I suspect the oriental varieties are made in very much the same way. Worstershire sauce is going to be WAY off. I actually read about how it got started in a academic book on the influence of colonialism on Indian cooking-- It started out as an 19th century attempt by the British to make a copy of an Indian curry sauce, since sudo-Indian cooking was very much in vogue at the time. All the curry powders and sauces that were being produced in England were anything but authentic, but then how did most English people know that?

The part about Worstershire being a happy accident is still true-- some start-up business types were trying to make their own curry sauce, but having tasted the stuff realized it was terrible. It was subsequently forgotten in a basement and rediscovered later, only to find that it now tasted very good (not especially Indian, but good), and began selling the stuff all over.
-Christy Beall
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Worcestershire Sauce = Garum ??? - by richard - 01-30-2004, 11:51 AM
Re:worcestshire sauce=garum? - by Anonymous - 02-03-2004, 01:01 PM
Re: Re:worcestshire sauce=garum? - by rekirts - 02-03-2004, 07:31 PM
Re:Re:Worcestershire sauce=garum? - by Anonymous - 02-04-2004, 03:08 PM
Re:Re:Worcestershire sauce=garum? - by Anonymous - 02-04-2004, 03:24 PM
Re: Worcestershire Sauce = Garum ??? - by richard - 02-08-2004, 03:50 PM
Re: Worcestershire Sauce = Garum ??? - by richard - 02-09-2004, 06:16 PM
re:Worcestshire sauce=garum - by Anonymous - 02-10-2004, 04:16 PM
Re: re:Worcestshire sauce=garum - by richard - 02-10-2004, 08:28 PM
Re: re:Worcestshire sauce=garum - by richard - 02-12-2004, 09:09 AM
Re:Worcestershire sauce=garum - by Anonymous - 02-29-2004, 01:46 PM
Re: Re:Worcestershire sauce=garum - by richard - 02-29-2004, 09:31 PM
Re: Re:Worcestershire sauce=garum - by John Maddox Roberts - 03-05-2004, 08:24 PM
Re: Re:Worcestershire sauce=garum - by John Maddox Roberts - 03-08-2004, 03:49 PM
Re: Re:Worcestershire sauce=garum - by rekirts - 03-12-2004, 12:36 PM
Re: Re:Worcestershire sauce=garum - by Lepidina - 03-13-2004, 10:56 AM
Re: Worcestershire Sauce = Garum ??? - by Anonymous - 03-26-2004, 12:42 AM
Re: Worcestershire Sauce = Garum ??? - by Anonymous - 03-26-2004, 06:41 AM
Mackeral Garum - by marsvigilia - 06-17-2005, 05:16 AM
Worcester sauce = garum - by Paullus Scipio - 05-31-2007, 09:43 AM
Re: Worcestershire Sauce = Garum ??? - by satsobek - 05-31-2007, 10:42 AM
Worcester sauce = garum - by Paullus Scipio - 05-31-2007, 11:22 AM
Worcester sauce = garum - by Paullus Scipio - 05-31-2007, 11:54 AM
Worcester sauce = garum - by Paullus Scipio - 05-31-2007, 01:06 PM
Worcester sauce = garum - by Paullus Scipio - 06-02-2007, 07:55 AM

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