Rhubarb Chutney

Persians in antiquity believed that the first man and woman sprang out of a rhubarb plant. Paula Wolfert asked me about this, and I had to look it up to find out more, just the way a Toda informant in Ootacamund had to page through W. H. R. Rivers’s 1906 monograph on his people to answer my questions. Modern Persian cooking features rhubarb cooked with lamb, clearly a dish of ancient origin; but among Parsis in India, at least a thousand years removed from our homeland, rhubarb has not surv