Every year when the beets start piling up on my counter, I know it is time to make pickled beets. This is one of my favorite ways to stretch the harvest, add bright color to winter plates, and keep ...

Millennia before Louis Pasteur discovered the bacteria-killing process known as pasteurization, our ravenous forbears found that foods lasted longer if they were treated to various procedures. Before ...

Pickling isn't just for cucumbers. Here's which other fruits and vegetables you should be adding to a brine. (Getty Images) The question is ... how should you get started? What exactly should you be ...

Beets, beautiful beets! I realize this sentiment isn’t widespread; people either love beets or firmly loathe them. Beets have a distinctly sweet, earthy taste owed to the organic bacteria geosmin and ...

With spring on its way, I look forward to incorporating lighter foods that make the body feel energized. For me, this includes a lot of salads, but the same salad every day can become boring. Pickled ...

Of all the creative ways to use hard-boiled eggs, perhaps the most colorful is to pickle them in beet juice. Not only does beet juice dye the whites of hard-boiled eggs a beautiful bright pink, but it ...

When the term “vulgaris” forms the second half of the given Latin name of a plant, as it very often does, we understandably might think it gives a negative connotation. But “vulgaris” merely means ...

Mehr Singh is a food and culture reporter based in New York. Her work appears in Bon Appétit, Food52, and other publications. If you’re the kind of person who finishes a jar of pickles and finds ...

The first person to soak the humble cucumber in some vinegar couldn't in their wildest dreams have predicted the Picklewich, pickle ice cream or pickle Bloody Marys, but here we are. Pickles aren't ...