When we hear the word pickle, most of us think of cucumbers -- brined, shriveled, sour, cut into chips and floating alongside red onion half-moons and tomato slices atop a deli sandwich. When my class visited New York in fifth grade, I remember that, over the course of the day, we were given three different food items to sample -- apples (for the Big Apple), Chinese food, and a plump kosher dill.We may be forgiven, then, for not knowing about the rest of the spectrum of pickled foods.
That's why The Joy of Pickling was created. Its chapters touch every arena of cuisine, from desserty pickles (apples, watermelon) to antipasto (asparagus and mushrooms) to main courses -- Korean kimchi and pickled meats, for instance. (The original edition, shockingly to us, left out kosher dill pickles, but this edition corrects that oversight. First published ten years ago, a new, expanded and enhanced edition was released this month.
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Showing posts with label kosha dillz. Show all posts
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Monday, June 8, 2009
What Makes a Kosher Pickle Kosher?
Labels: COOKING, food, kosha dillz, kosher, lower east side, myjewishlearning, pickles
Posted by matthue at 11:02 AM
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Who Got the Beat?
My new column Tuned In is up on Nextbook! With a Sholom Auslander-like digitized picture and everything.
When I first got into Judaism (read, betrayed my secular family and Conservative synagogue and became a religious zealot) I was convinced that Jewish culture was never going to replace secular culture in my life. During some of my first Shabboses as an observant Jew, I went to They Might Be Giants and Fugazi concerts, buying my ticket beforehand and manufacturing excuses, if only because, well, the Miami Boys’ Choir was next to impossible to slam-dance to, and I’d be damned if I was going to listen to any one-man synthesizer band just because we have a God in common.
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Also, this is only going to affect about three people in the universe, but it's so great that I need to scream it: the first band I ever loved, The Dead Milkmen, are getting back together. So far it's just a one-off show -- while I'm doing a reading in Los Angeles, no less -- but, for the moment at least, it makes the world feel like a better place. At first I got scared that it would change what I wrote about them in Losers. but I think it makes it even MORE relevant. you know, to today's kids.
Labels: balkan beat box, danny raphael, dead milkmen, kosha dillz, lines of faith, losers, music, nextbook, socalled, tamuz shiran
Posted by matthue at 4:29 PM
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