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Dear Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila

Prabhupada.

 

> On p. 140 of your book you cite Srila Prabhupada as giving a recipe for

> eggplant pickle with vinegar, although elsewhere he wrote:

>

> "So far the cucumber pickles:...vinegar is not good; it is tamasic, in the

> darkness, nasty food. So I think we shall not accept this pickles." REF.

> Letter to: Kirtanananda -- Hawaii 24 March, 1969

>

> Any comments on this apparent contradiction?

 

{The pickles that Prabhupada is referring to , by the way, were made by

Karmis}

 

 

The pickles story to which you refer was given to me by Upendra. It was one

of his favourites. He assured me when I interviewed him in Berkeley in 1993

that he was quoting Prabhupada faithfully. He actually asked Prabhupada to

repeat the recipe to make sure that Prabhupada really said vinegar, and he

did.

 

I don't really have much to say about the apparent contradiction, other than

to suggest that perhaps it isn't a really big prohibition. I put the recipe

in my latest cookbook, and in it I suggested lemon juice as an alternative,

as it works fine with either.

 

As you know, Upendra passed away a couple of years ago, so the story ends

there, I guess.

 

I'll answer your other questions in a seperate letter,and feel free to ask

me any more questions as you see fit.

 

Your servant, Kurma dasa.