Today I ate the Bee n Beez. These are Rick's bread and butter pickles. I do like some bread and butter pickles but they typically are not my favorite. These bread and butter pickles are very unusal and very very tasty. Like Rick's other pickles, they are flavored differently than what you would find in the grocery store. In Bee-n-Beez there are red pepper flakes, turmeric and dried cherries! The outcome is sweet, but not disgustingly so and not like any other bread and butter pickle I have ever had. The serving suggestion says to pair them with grilled cheese, which I will absolutely do, because they really compliment the taste of cheddar cheese! If you are not typically a bread and butter fan, give these a try.
That rounds out all the Rick's picks I ordered. There are a couple varieties that I will have to order next time and I plan on moving into other "pickles" that Rick has, like the Curried Green Tomato Pickle. My conclusion about Rick's Picks? He is an interesting guy who makes good pickles. Rick's picks are Abby's picks too! :) (For the record Claire begged me not to say that!)
My Great Uncle John, who is definintely not old enough to be my great uncle, sent me a couple stories about pickling and pickles from NPR today. When I started this experiment I thought I would just eat a bunch of pickled cucumbers, which is still my main intent, but there is a whole world of pickling out there that I need to explore. This article, coupled with Rick's pickling videos, have inspired me to just start throwing things into jars and pour brine over them!
Before we went to NY this summer, John, the aforementioned uncle, sent me a link to the Pickle guys and said we should visit their shop. Well while we were in NY, we never made it. NPR did a nice segment on the Pickle Guys though. As I told John this morning, I really wish I had started this project before we went to NYC. New York is like a pickle Shangri-La.
On the lower east side there is a neighborhood that is called the Old Pickle district. While all but the Pickle Guys have moved out the fact that New York had a pickle district speaks volumes about what a strong pickling tradition they have. Next time I am in NY I will know better how to spend my time. Forget the Empire State Building, Lady Liberty or the New Yankee stadium, I will be on the search for the city's best pickles!
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