Pickle pros reveal how to pickle your own vegetables

Pickled vegetables are as ubiquitous these days as craft brews and carefully curated beards. “Portlandia,” the comedy sketch show, even has a “You Can Pickle That!” sketch making fun of the phenomenon.
So how did pickles get to be the new cupcake?
For one thing, pickles straddle two hot movements. Homesteading is one of them. There’s something satisfying, even romantic in a Little-House-on-the-Prairie sort of way, about canning your own provisions, especially if you