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A Victorian Mistake That Became a Classic by Clyde Van Arsdall VI Food stories fascinate me, and the story of Worcestershire sauce is a good one. This fermented sauce has roots in India, where an English Lord served as a governor. He fell in love with this exotic sauce and, upon returning home to Worcester, England, in 1835, he contacted two local chemists, John Lea and William Perrins, to try to recreate it. The chemists reverse-engineered the sauce, but upon tasting it, th