Fresh Turmeric and Ginger Pickle

Fresh turmeric rhizome looks like a cousin of ginger, which it is. The inside is usually a bright carroty orange. Modern Western medicine is now beginning to realize the enormous pharmaceutical value of turmeric. Indeed, some enterprising American thought it would be a good idea to apply for a patent—never mind that turmeric has been grown in India for thousands of years and spread from there in both directions, adopted wherever it went as a plant of nearly infinite medicinal properties. It