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makrut lime leaf

bai makrut · daun jeruk purut · daun limau purut · kaffir lime

This archive keeps the old label recorded as a market name, since erasing it would hide the history rather than correct it.

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Cultural layer

Origin

Maritime and mainland Southeast Asia; the double-lobed leaf of Citrus hystrix, used for its oil rather than its juice or flesh

Routes

Central across Thai, Lao, Khmer, Malay and Indonesian cooking; long sold in English under a market label that is a racial slur, which the archive has replaced with the Thai name

Context

The leaf carried a slur into Western kitchens for decades because a market label stuck and nobody selling it had a reason to check. Makrut is the Thai name and it was always available. The renaming costs nothing and returns the thing to the people who cook with it. This archive keeps the old label recorded as a market name, since erasing it would hide the history rather than correct it.

Route

Pending

The routes are written. They are not yet mapped.

This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

1 of 404 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype

What renders here when it lands

Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
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

Names · co-equal, marked by how each one travelled

Foodway

Present as a living food culture.

bai makrutEndonymThai · Thailand
daun jeruk purutEndonymIndonesian · Indonesian archipelago
daun limau purutEndonymMalay · Malay Peninsula
kaffir limeMarketEnglish market label carrying a slur; makrut is the name to use · global market

Peoples

Thaimainland SE Asian