Man that looks good! Long long ago, before the turn of the century when Motorola Dynatech or flip-phone cellphones roamed the earth, I went to Japan for a week before my son’s birth. We were shooting photos of a new MRI machine and after a long day, we missed our train and had some time to kill. We were hungry and in need of beer, so we stopped in a little hole in the wall, ordered some tall beers, noodles and so on. Moments later the waitress dropped off a sizable plate of pickles, none of which looked familiar (maybe that was eggplant? was that a cucumber?) Absolutely amazing. Revelatory taste and texture sensations.
Lately I’ve been making jars of caribbean style pikles. Tasty! Colorful too. i make a very mild hot version (don’t forget the clove, next batch I’m going to try some nutmeg in there).
