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O, baby!
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We are in O: The Oprah Magazine in the current April issue. Oprah’ s Eater’s Digest (p.96) highlights The People’s Pickle… and notes accurately that its flavor is “pure nostalgia”… traditional garlic dill. We were pleased to see mention of The People’s Pickle’s other main virtue: it is low sodium. That’s a big deal for the millions of folks out there watching their salt intake. Many thanks for the shout out, Oprah. Let us know if we can do anything for you. Hmmm… the Rick’s Picks Effect… not sure it has quite the same ring…
The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Lauren Klatsky is a Boston-based Friend of Rick’s Picks (that’s a F.O.R.P. if you did not know) and she asked us to provide pickles for a reception at the The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, which is happening this Saturday March 20th in the South End of Boston. Beantown will be Greentown with a powerful slate of progressive films on topics of interest to those who care about in the sustainable movement and the environment in general. Check it out!
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An unknown location in Turkey.
About five years ago, my old friend from VH1, Mary Wharton, sent me this picture she took on a trip to Turkey. To this day, it is the image on my desktop computer. I find it endlessly interesting… the gentle gaze of the man with the white hair… the exotic and mysterious jars piled high… the metal object (a handtruck?) in the foreground. I’ve often said one reason I love pickles and pickling so much is that they are so universal… whether you are from Japan, Poland or Louisiana. Let’s add Turkey to the list.
our first cookbook is out
With dozens of beautiful photographs, the book spans the spectrum of preserving techniques and possibilities.
The first Rick’s Picks cookbook is out. Williams-Sonoma’s The Art of Preserving features 17 pickle recipes by yours truly (with great assistance from Kate Galassi). The idea with our contributions was to follow the cycle of the growing season… there are recipes for pickled rhubarb (early in the spring) to pickled brussels sprouts (later in the fall). It was really a cool thing to work on (and whetted my appetite to write more). Until June, the book is available exclusively at Williams-Sonoma stores, and then it will be in wide release and, of course, available on our website. I’ll probably do some book signings at Greenmarket and maybe even at a few stores. Check it out!
brooklyn pickle olympics
My favorite of the rings is the green one in the lower right.
A nice blogger named Melissa conducted a tasting in the form of an Olympic competiton amongst all of the Brooklyn Flea picklers. Who won the gold? You can find out here.
preserving haiti: save the date!
The Pickle Club is getting all the New York pickle people together to stage a fundraiser on Thursday February 25th to benefit the Forgotten Children of Haiti. We’ll be posting more information about the event as it gets closer, but please save the date!
Click here to get all the details.
Preserving has never meant so much.
fox news looks at rick's picks
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Recently, I told the story of Rick’s Picks to Fox News… it will air next Monday, February 1 on their evening news program with Sheppard Smith some time between 7 and 8 PM EST. You can also see it here.
a chat with the village voice
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After my talk at Louis 649 the other evening, I got an email from Jenny Miller, a writer who contributes to the Village Voice’s Fork In The Road column. We had a nice conversation about all things pickled, which you can read here.
Making Pickles with Fox News
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Leave a Comment I’ll be shooting a segment for Fox News today. They are sending a crew to shoot me making Phat Beets up in Poughkeepsie, then we’re hoping back in the van and heading to Greenmarket to capture that scene at midday. Then we are going to finish up the day shooting a session of experimental pickle-making in at a kitchen in Bushwick. Should be a great shoot and I will post photos and air date details as they become available.
Brooklyn Flea's Gifted Holiday Market Is Up And Running
The Brooklyn Flea, one of our favorite retail communities, has colonized a deluxe new holiday outpost on the Island of Manhattan (Manhattan is the island on the other side of the East River from Brooklyn). Eric D, aka Treeboy, is the impressario of it all and he’s calling the market Gifted, which is a fine and appropriate moniker indeed.
Give the Gift at Gifted.
It is a great place to shop for all kinds of crafts, clothes and artisan objects of every stripe, including of course Rick’s Picks. We’ll have the usual array of pickled items on display for all the folks on your list, and we’ll be happy to take your holiday orders to be shipped when and where you specify. We’ll also have a special Flea-only limited edition PICKLE PAPERWEIGHT, designed by our neighbor John Derian. Keep those documents under control this holiday season, people! Plus, we’ll also be featuring the Stickle, aka Pickle On A Stick, on select Saturdays. Stay tuned!
All the date and time details.
