Chow Chow

Preparation info
  • Makes

    eight

    1 pint jars
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

  • About

Also called Indian pickle in certain areas of the South, chow chow supposedly originated in California with Chinese immigrant laborers in the nineteenth century. John Egerton, however, in his authoritative Southern Food, traces the complex relish as far back as a late-eighteenth-century recipe in South Carolina. In any case, today chow chow is as Southern as watermelon rind pickles,