This iconic Boston restaurant has a jar of pickles from the 1920s

By Gintautas Dumcius | gdumcius@masslive.com   –   MASS LIVE Boston City Councilor Michael Flaherty’s eyes lit up when he spotted the pickle jar up on a shelf behind the counter. He excitedly pointed to it, saying the pickle jar was the first delivery to Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe when the South End restaurant opened in the […]

Bread-and-Butter Pickles

Bread-And-Butter Pickles These pickles are a must-have accompaniment for BA’s Best Fried Chicken Sandwich…though they’re pretty amazing on their own as a snack as well. Ingredients SERVINGS: MAKES 1 QUART ½ English hothouse cucumber or 2 Persian cucumbers, thinly sliced 1 small onion, thinly sliced 2 jalapeños, thinly sliced 4 large dill sprigs 2 tablespoons […]

Chili with Jalapeño Cornbread | Chowboy Republic – Virginia Beach

By Patrick Evans-Hylton   –   The Virginian-Pilot Chili with Jalapeño Cornbread Chowboy Republic Chili, a type of stew, has many variations, but a good, basic chili con carne is always a delight. The savory, sometimes fiery, mix of meat, tomatoes, chili peppers, garlic, onion and seasonings is filling, and fulfilling. One of my favorite chilis […]

LPD gets first place in Celebrity Jalapeno Contest

By: Ann Hutyra   –   KGNS LAREDO, TEXAS (KGNS) – It’s a preview of things to come as part of the Washington’s Birthday Celebration. Contestants ate as many jalapenos as they could in five minutes. The winner was Officer Abraham Diaz, with the Laredo Police Department – who ate 43 jalapenos. Organizers say the challenge […]

Sweet, Sour, Dill and Everything in Between

By Justine Miller   –   NY City Lens Third-generation pickle maker on how it all started in 1897 and how they still make millions of pickles per year today. Steve Leibowitz’s grandfather opened America’s first pickle stand in 1897 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It quickly became an institution and a decade later, they started […]