Quick Pickles: Easy Recipes with Big Flavor Book

Forget those mason jars and double-boilers! Pickling can be quick and easy if you know the tricks. From the team behind the wildly popular Thrill of the Grill comes Quick Pickles: Easy Recipes with Big Flavor. Offering both classic and contemporary pickles, these simple recipes can be completed with minimum fuss. Great, healthy snacks-think of them as the salsa of the new millennium-they'll keep for several weeks in the refrigerator (although, once tasted, they are impossible to resist). How about some Old-Fashioned Bread & Butter Pickles, the newly popular Korean kimchee, or something more unusual like Mango Pickles with Scorched Mustard Seeds? With handy tips on keeping pickles crunchy, choosing and using containers, and suggestions for serving with meals, there's more than a peck of pickles in this tangy collection.

Publishers Weekly

Bold, crunchy and good for us, today's hassle-free pickles, attest Chris Schlesinger, John Willoughby (co-authors of the bestselling The Thrill of the Grill) and Dan George (aka the Pickle Man), can add plenty of pizzazz to meals or serve as a flavorful snack all their own. In Quick Pickles: Easy Recipes with Big Flavor, they team up to reminisce about their lifelong love of pickles and share recipes and pickling lore that reflect cooking traditions from all over the world. From El Salvadoran Pineapple-Pickled Cabbage, a featured favorite at Schlesinger's East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Mass., to Pickled Peaches in the Style of India, their clear recipes and eager commentary will tempt even the most ornery of taste buds. ( June 1) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.