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Address
304 North Cardinal
St. Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Work Hours
Monday to Friday: 7AM - 7PM
Weekend: 10AM - 5PM

Not everything labelled “handmade” earns the word. In most kitchens today, a pickle is mixed in bulk, sealed with a preservative, and given a label that says what the buyer wants to hear. A truly handmade pickle is different —…

JYOWNAR didn’t start as a business — it started in a home kitchen, in the middle of festival cooking, where mothers and grandmothers presided over big batches of food for Diwali, Holi and Janmashtami, and pickles were made alongside everything…

It would be easier, and far more profitable, to make JYOWNAR pickles in bulk. Bigger vats, faster mixing, a longer shelf life with the right preservatives — the factory playbook exists for a reason. We’ve chosen not to use it.…

A jar of JYOWNAR pickle has no artificial preservatives to lean on — which means how you store it at home matters more than it would with a factory pickle. The good news is that keeping it fresh doesn’t take…

In our home, festival cooking was never complete without a small bowl of achaar somewhere on the thali. Diwali, Holi, Janmashtami — whatever the occasion, pickle wasn’t an afterthought, it was part of how the meal came together. If you’re…

Mango pickling looks simple from the outside — cut the fruit, add spice, add oil, wait. In practice, it’s one of the more demanding things our kitchen makes each year, and the sun does more of the real work than…

Ask anyone from a Bihar kitchen what makes an achaar taste like home, and hing and mirch will come up before anything else. It’s a combination so ordinary in our kitchen growing up that it took years to realise how…