jackfruit
Cultural layer
Kerala jackfruit production and waste (Indian press reporting, 2019 to 2026)
Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. (Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, accessed 2026-10-12)
The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson, 1999)
Indian Food: A Historical Companion (K. T. Achaya, 1994)
Indonesian Regional Food and Cookery, 1999 edition (Sri Owen, 1999)
Indonesian Regional Food and Cookery (Sri Owen, 1994)
Dakshin: Vegetarian Cuisine from South India (Chandra Padmanabhan, 1992)
Route
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1 of 409 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype
- Waypoints
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- Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
- Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
- Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
- Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence
Rite
The jackfruit tree is planted at a birth in parts of Kerala and Sri Lanka, because it will outlive the person and feed a household for generations. Its wood is used for temple drums and for the mridangam, so the same tree feeds the family and speaks in the ritual. A fruit too large for one household forces distribution, which is a social arrangement built into the botany.
Dakshin: Vegetarian Cuisine from South India (Chandra Padmanabhan, 1992)
Names · co-equal, marked by how each one travelled
FoodwayPresent as a living food culture.
No names recorded.
Connections
11 bonds · 10 sourcedGudeg, the young jackfruit simmered in thin coconut milk and finished with thick.
Searched in Sri Owen, Indonesian Regional Food and Cookery, 1999 edition, pages 145 and 146, gudeg: jackfruit in thin coconut milk, then thick; page 41, rendang nangka, the unripe jackfruit taking up the coconut milk.
Gudeg, the young jackfruit boiled for hours in coconut milk and palm sugar until it browns.
The gudeg bumbu: shallot with garlic, candlenut, coriander seed and galangal.
The gudeg bumbu.
Searched in Sri Owen, Indonesian Regional Food and Cookery, 1999 edition, page 146, gudeg: garlic in the paste the young jackfruit simmers in.
Score unexamined
Score unexamined
Chakka pradhaman.
Es campur and the kue table.
Sambal goreng krecek beside the gudeg.
Searched in Sri Owen, Indonesian Regional Food and Cookery, 1999 edition, page 145: gudeg is the jackfruit served with opor ayam and sambal goreng krecek over rice.
Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place. Witness means the pairing is the place's own and the reference documenting it was written from outside.
The score is cultural weight: how central a pairing is in the tradition that documents it. It is not a prediction of how two materials behave in a formulation and not a measure of chemical affinity. The scale is ordinal, because centrality is a judgement rather than a measurement: 1.0 where the pair is the dish, 0.9 a fixed named form, 0.8 a canonical dish, 0.7 recurrent across many dishes, 0.6 common, 0.5 attested, 0.4 marginal or compound-led.
Each score is set against a named dish and carries that dish in its note. Where a score has not been examined it says so, because an inherited figure and a researched one should not look alike.
The dish is named by a reader who knows the cuisine and cites a source appropriate to it. It has not yet been confirmed inside that source page by page, so a note records what supports a score rather than what has been checked in the book.
Studio Culinar-E, "jackfruit", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/jackfruit
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.