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anchovy paste

The tube is an honest object about a dishonest preference: the flavour was always wanted, and only the fish itself was the problem.

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Cultural layer

Origin

Europe; anchovies pounded with oil and salt into a tube, a nineteenth and twentieth-century convenience form of a much older cure

Routes

Industrialised in Britain and Italy for a market that wanted the flavour without the fish visible on the plate

Context

Anchovy paste exists so the anchovy can be eaten without being seen. It goes into dressings and sauces of people who say they dislike anchovies, doing the work of umami invisibly. The tube is an honest object about a dishonest preference: the flavour was always wanted, and only the fish itself was the problem.

Route

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