On Friday, Aug. 25, 2000, Doris Rubenstein was in a bit of a pickle. The Minnesota State Fair had once again rejected her kosher pickles from its Creative Activities competition, she said on that ...

CHESTER — Learning how to make the great American kosher dill, while discovering the pickle's amazing history, is sure to excite the taste buds of any pickle lover. But, what makes a pickle kosher?

As I mentioned, I bought some fresh pickling cucumbers at Dilorio’s farm stand on Monday. I made homemade Kosher pickles with them. Kosher pickles are fermented — there is no cooking or canning ...

Doris Rubenstein lobbied the Minnesota State Fair for more than 20 years to include a fermented pickle category in the Creative Arts competition. This year it made it's debut. CATHY WURZER: We have a ...

It is a craze that began a year ago when Rabbi Shmuel Marcus meet an 86-year-old man who claimed he was one of the last kosher pickle makers. Intrigued by the story, the Rabbi began teaching students ...

Rabbi Mendy Margolin wants to put the kosher back in kosher pickles - one congregation at a time. Sporting a long beard and a black apron that declared "Real Men Don't Use Recipes" on a recent morning ...

It was a mere 55 degrees out when the sun awoke me at 5 a.m. last Monday. I didn’t want to get out of bed and grimaced while donning my slippers and coat over my PJs. But my reluctance disappeared ...

BOSTON (CBS) - The Phantom Gourmet recently purchased four jars of Kosher dill pickles from a local supermarket. The contenders were Cains, Claussen, Mt. Olive, and Vlasic. Mt. Olive finished at the ...

Pickles are a testament to the ingenuity of various cultures around the world — people who figured out early on that they could preserve food for the weeks and months ahead. Historians believe the ...