Home cooks can learn to make Travis Grillo’s popular pickles, sold in grocery stores around the United States, with this new cookbook from the pickle purveyor, coauthored by New York–based chef Khutorsky. The book’s first chapter addresses how to make pickles at home, but this section is strictly about refrigerated pickles (not shelf-stable ones). The rest of the book is all about proving that there’s no place pickles don’t belong. Pickle lovers will find plenty of new ways to deliver briny flavor, with recipes for pickle flatbread, pickle hummus, and pickle guacamole. Readers will also learn how to get creative with leftover brine, like incorporating it into the book’s jazzed-up version of the classic pickle-brined chicken. There are also recipes to help readers branch out into pickling things besides cucumbers.
VERDICT To some extent, the book feels like a novelty, but it makes a fun addition to most collections. Readers who love pickles and want to expand their home cooking repertoires will find this an enjoyable and useful book.
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