I love the mushroom curry - it's pickle-like in consistency, and very hot, but the flavours are wonderfully pronounced and clear.
"It's pickled celery," the waiter said, unhelpfully.
"Even if it's pickled and fermented, if it's your national dish and you're in Asia, believe me, they'll find a way to make it special," said the celebrity chef Bobby Chinn, the host of World Café Asia, a travel and cooking television show.
And later on in its life span, how should it be pickled so that I can use it during the winter?
Bowdler said its listing, which provides substantial protection but did not mean it is "pickled in aspic", had been enthusiastically supported.
It is Pickles' biggest intervention in local government since he took over Doncaster council in 2010.
So, really, it is pickles and preserves and sometimes other things.
The mushroom is also popular in Finland, where cooks boil it repeatedly, disposing of the water each time, and then store it in salt water and keep it refrigerated, after which it is pickled or served in salads.
Intriguing and mystifying, this "manhunt story" (as the director inventively described it) is pickled in a heady dose of psychoanalytic dialogue, thanks in part to producer David O. Selznick, an ardent Freudian.
"With regards to creative dining, each of our six courses was based around a different interpretation of decay, whether it be pickling, charring, fermenting or physically deconstructing," Barker explains.
It is pickled in brine and then rolled in cornmeal.
