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horseradish

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Route

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Confidence
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Summary
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Rite

Horseradish is bitterness made obligatory. As maror on the Passover seder plate it is eaten deliberately to taste the bitterness of slavery, which makes it one of the few foods in any tradition eaten specifically because it is unpleasant. Ashkenazi households in Eastern Europe substituted the root for the bitter lettuces the rite originally named, because horseradish was what grew there. The rite adapted to the soil and kept its meaning.

The Book of Jewish Food (Claudia Roden, 1996)