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Spicy Dill Pickles - Feast Your Eyes

Posted Sep 29th 2009 10:00AM by Alexa Weibel
Filed under: Feast Your Eyes

Photo: you can count on me, Flickr.

National Pickle Day may yet be a couple of months away, but now's the time to start perfecting your technique, as did Flickr user "You Can Count on Me." Though the pickles themselves aren't even pictured, their zingy brine looks promising, with masses of fiery floating peppercorns and sprigs of dill.

Treasured for their tangy flavor alone, pickles boast both a historic background and surprising health benefits. Vitamin-C rich pickles were packed on Christopher Columbus's fateful voyage to help the seamen fight scurvy -- and actually take their name from the ship's stocker, Amerigo Vespucci. Today, the fermented fruits are considered extra nutritious for allowing bacteria the time to create additional vitamins and are in fact more easily digested than their non-treated counterparts. So get pickling!

Check out more pickle trivia at the Science of Pickles and try the pictured recipe from blog Everybody Likes Sandwiches.

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Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest

Posted Aug 21st 2009 5:00PM by Alex Van Buren
Filed under: On the Blogs

Grown-up sodas. Image: Details.

A few of the best stories spied elsewhere on the Web this week:

BoingBoing picks up The Economist's story (and awesome graphic): "How many minutes do people in your city have to work to buy a Big Mac?"

Adult sodas from the stylish fellas at Details.

Starbucks-lovers, alert! They are lowering prices on some drinks but kicking them up a notch on others.

The L.A. Times reports: Facebook has created "Restaurant City." You may never get work done again.

Another ephemerally gorgeous piece from Design*Sponge's "In The Kitchen With" column, featuring a meringue-raspberry ice cream cake and some enviable dishware.

Portland, Oregon continues to rule, with a Fermentation Fest on Thursday of next week. (Clearly either our invite was lost in the mail, or they do not know about our pickling problems.)

Have you sampled the blackberries in the market right now? They are super-sweet. This Blackberry-Cabernet Caipirinha from Chow had us drooling.

The best Bruni interview of the bunch -- from the New Yorker.

Watermelon Rind Pickles and Preserves

Posted Nov 26th 2008 10:00AM by Kat Kinsman

Take pity on a Yankee girl, wouldja? I thought I was being all clever about the head when I put up a batch of watermelon rind pickle and another of rind preserves during my pickling vacation* this past August. Thing is, when I recently popped open a jar for a pre-dinner relish tray, my North Carolinian husband asked me if we had any Cheez Whiz in the fridge. Huh?

It seems that in his youth, Douglas' grandmother Memama's very best girlfriend Janie, upon hearing word of his arrival in Plymouth, would pull down a Ball jar, and show up chez Memama with a platter of watermelon rind pickle, Cheez Whiz and Captain's Wafers. The best I could do this past Sunday night was accompany the pickle with some double-cream brie and store brand Ritz-ish crackers that we had on hand. Oh, he swore up and down that it was just perfect, but he's all polite like that.

So, what I'm wondering now is if any of you have a particular familiarity with watermelon rind pickles, and if so -- if I bring along a jar to Thanksgiving dinner, should I tote along the Whiz & wafers, or was that strictly a Janie thing? Might plain ol' crackers suffice, is there another standard methodology, or should we all just stop fretting and enjoy?

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