Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 24 – Quick Pickles

After a brief hiatus and only the slightest brush with death Shawn returns to chat with Simon about pickles, preserving, finding one’s purpose and the power of salt.

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Elderberry Pontack: https://honest-food.net/wild-game/sauces-for-wild-game/pontack-an-elderberry-sauce/

Tsukemono Japanese Pickling Recipes by Ikuko Hisamatsu: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Tsukemono-Japanese-Pickling/dp/488996181X

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky: https://www.amazon.ca/Salt-World-History-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/0676975356

Tycho’s Long Lost 1st Album The Science of Patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxWZ_-nDeog

The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terrior by Pascal Baudar: https://www.amazon.ca/New-Wildcrafted-Cuisine-Exploring-Gastronomy/dp/1603586067

Canning Cabbage Part 2 – Sauerkraut

A full three quarters of a mightily dense cabbage head remains in the fridge so my Mason jar odyssey continues. First came the Korean kimchee, then the Mexican curtido and now I’m going to finish off this great green beast by hacking it up, salting and fermenting it as a classic Northern European sauerkraut.

Now what we in America refer to with the blanket term of “sauerkraut” actually is part of a great Germanic-Scandanavian tradition of fermenting vegetables to keep during hard times thought to have originated in the Eurasian Steppes and spread by marauding tribes such as the Huns, Tartars and Mongols. Nowadays the name is synonymous with Germany, its culture and culinary traditions. Read More