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anchovy

Western cooking treats Southeast Asian fish sauce as pungent and foreign while using the same technique daily without noticing.

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Cultural layer

Origin

The Mediterranean and Atlantic; small oily fish salt-cured and aged, descended directly from Roman garum production

Routes

Cured across the Mediterranean since antiquity; the Cantabrian and Sicilian fisheries supply most of the world, and stocks have collapsed repeatedly under industrial pressure

Context

Anchovy is Europe's fish sauce, and Europe forgets that about itself. Roman garum was fermented fish, industrially produced and class-stratified, and the anchovy melted into a pasta sauce is its direct descendant. Western cooking treats Southeast Asian fish sauce as pungent and foreign while using the same technique daily without noticing.

Route

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