Who Invented Pickles, What Does the Word Pickle Mean, and How Does Pickling Preserve Fruits and Vegetables?
There is no known inventor of the pickle, because pickling has been around for a very long time. Pickling was a way to preserve food for out of season use and for long journeys, especially by sea. Pickles and chutneys were originally a means of preserving fruit and vegetables using a combination of heat processing to kill bacter