Editing Ketchup (section)

===European-Arabic theory===
American anthropologist E.&nbsp;N. Anderson relies on Elizabeth David to claim that ''ketchup'' is a [[cognate]] of the French {{ill|escavèche|fr}}, meaning "food in sauce".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=E. N. |title=The Food of China |date=1988 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0-300-04739-8 |location=New Haven |page=160}}</ref> The word also exists in Spanish and Portuguese forms as ''[[escabeche]]'', "a sauce for pickling", which culinary historian Karen Hess traced back to Arabic {{Lang|ar-latn|kabees}}, or "pickling with vinegar". The term was anglicized to ''caveach'', a word first attested in the late 17th century, at the same time as ''ketchup''.<ref name="pureketchup" />