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a Portuguese wine-and-garlic stew that India weaponized into a sweat-inducing legend
name originFrom Portuguese 'vinha d'alhos': wine and garlic
no wine nowGoan cooks swapped wine for sour palm vinegar
original meatAuthentically made with pork, not lamb or chicken
colonial rootsArrived via Portuguese sailors in 16th-century Goa
heat mythOriginal recipe was tart, not the inferno expected