pickle

My culinary reward came at Veera Flavors, which offered the tastiest thali—a tin tray piled high with vegetable dishes, rice, yogurt and pickles—outside of Chennai.

While drying or pickling might preserve its taste, photography best preserves its beauty.

The instinct that pairs chèvre with strawberries is the same one that tells you to finish a bowl of lentils with lemon juice, or to scatter pickled shallots over roast chicken.

Ms. Lakshmi serves it on a bed of traditional Southern cheesy grits and suggests chowchow pickles, an old-time relish, as a side.

Slatkin’s next project is a candle made for White Castle, with tones of pickles, onions and ketchup designed to smell like the burger chain’s popular slider.