gherkin
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The gherkins “symbolized for me the last thing you have in your cupboards when you run out of everything. It starts from the last gherkin jar, and from there it all goes south.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
Czechia’s chlebíčky: A slice of baguette with potato salad, ham, Emmental, tomato and gherkin.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
The burger came in a tiny brioche bun, with a gherkin topping and sweet maple-mustard sauce.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2017
The book spans generations, beginning with quirky Ottokar, a pickler from Znojmo, Moravia, “the gherkin capital of the Habsburg Empire.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2016
Caper sauce, by adding capers; or, as a substitute, chopped gherkin.
From The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience by Mary Harrison
The gherkins “symbolized for me the last thing you have in your cupboards when you run out of everything. It starts from the last gherkin jar, and from there it all goes south.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
Kherson remains without electricity, running water or heating, but residents found some relief in being able to purchase Ukrainian pickled gherkins, dumplings, horseradish and other favourites.
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2022
The filling, it should be noted, also contains finely-chopped bacon and sweet pickle relish, and the whole thing is topped with thin slices of pickled jalapeño peppers and/or gherkins.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2021
Citric or spritzy fermented sharpness is preferable to the bruising vinegary twang of, for instance, pickled gherkins.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2019
To the south, the flowers give way to a patch of raveled gherkins.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
