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kasundi

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Cultural layer

Origin

Bengal; fermented mustard condiment, pungent and sharp, traditionally made under ritual restrictions that governed who could prepare it and when

Routes

A Bengali household preparation that was hedged with purity rules in its traditional form; now commercially bottled across India and reinvented in Australia as a spiced tomato relish

Context

Kasundi was once bound by rules about who could make it, when, and in what state of ritual purity, which tells you it was treated as more than a condiment. It is now bottled and sold, and in Australia the word has been taken for a tomato relish that is not fermented and not mustard. A name can travel further than the practice it described, and usually does.

Route

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