Forget Canning, and Get Yourself a Chinese Pickle Crock | Eater
"Found in the 1970s, the 2,000-year-old tomb of a Han-dynasty noblewoman contained lavish clothes, jewelry and remnants of a final banquet — and crucially a set of pickling crocks alongside a thick manuscript of pickle recipes. The presence of both jars and written recipes highlights that pickling was an established, valued culinary practice with ritual significance, treated as a necessary provision for the afterlife and evidence of sophisticated food knowledge at the time." - Clarissa Wei
