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Today, some history: Pickling, the act of preserving perishable food by storing it in edible acid, is an ancient practice. There are, to simplify a bit, two kinds of pickles: those which are fermented to form an acid and those simply submerged in an acid. (Preservation in acid being the key distinction between preserves and pickles.) The practice of fermented pickles began, just as so many wonderful food traditions, as an accident. Humans have long been preserving foods by submerging them in br (...)

Today, some history: Pickling, the act of preserving perishable food by storing it in edible acid, is an ancient practice. There are, to simplify a bit, two kinds of pickles: those which are fermented to form an acid and those simply submerged in an acid. (Preservation in acid being the key distinction between preserves and pickles.) The practice of fermented pickles began, just as so many wonderful food traditions, as an accident. Humans have long been preserving foods by submerging them in br (...)