The Idea behind 'Pickle Me This'

The idea behind pickling is this:

Pickling is a way to take a food item that has an early-ish expiration date and prolong its life.

I don't know who started it, The Chinese, The Polish, The Germans, The Japanese.... Who knows? All I know is no matter where in the world we are, we all pickle, and we all do it differently. The very idea of adding salt, and vinegar to a product was a way to know you would still be able to consume it in a year or two or three! And somehow, someone at every corner of the globe, figured that out at some point.

Pickling isn't just putting cucumbers in a jar with salt, sugar, dill and vinegar. Pickling can be anything from making the best pickled cucumber ever, to making chutney out of figs and balsamic, to canning your own marinara, we don't think of it like this, but preserving any item is pickling, with that in mind I am going to explore the world of pickling from kimchee to lemon preserves to pickled tomatoes to okra, cabbage, heck, even fish!!!! And that is why my first post on this blog is pickled watermelon, two reasons, 1. I saw the recipe in a cookbook recently that was circa 1950 and 2. pickled watermelon?????

All around the world people pickle things in one way or another, we can pickle just about anything ............. Pickle Me This.................