Gordy’s Pickles

Spicy dills you're sure to relish

A good pickle is typically welcome any time of year, but as backyard barbecues heat up they become the essential summer accompaniment. Sure to add a zesty burst of flavor to your next veggie burger or Italian sausage is Gordy’s, a Washington, DC-based pickling company started by friends Sarah Gordon and Sheila Fain late last year. Gordy’s currently stocks four types of pickled goods—Sweet Pepper …

McClure’s Potato Chips

Pickle masters meet potato chip vets for a briny snack sensation

Anyone familiar with McClure’s pickles or our favorite Bloody Mary mix will like where the two brothers’ fascination with pickles has led them now. Drawing on the flavors of the tasty brines that started it all, the latest to get the McClure treatment are bags of crunchy potato chips. Detroit’s veteran snack food company, Better Made, provided the perfect chips as a base and McClure …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: How to Make Kim Chee

Radish, chili pepper and garlic star in our video documenting the process of making Kim Chee

by Gregory Mitnick For this video we visited our friend Tim‘s grandma, Yu Um Chon, at her home in New York where she showed us how she makes Kim Chee. As one of dwindling numbers of Koreans who still make the spicy pickled staple themselves, she explained that everyone has their own recipe and walked us through hers (including the addition of artificial sweetener to …