Pickled Vegetables

Sombor's homemade pfefferoni jar, the way village cooks have always done it — slender yellow peppers, brine-clean, with a slow tingle that builds. ...

Bulgaria's assorti pickle — V&G's family-size jar of cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, gherkin, and pepper layered in vinegar-clean brine. Multicol...

Va-Va's whole tomato peppers in the holiday-host jar — Macedonia's round paradajz paprika scaled for the big-family Slava. Snap-firm sweet-red fles...

Va-Va's fire-roasted red peppers in the holiday-host jar — Macedonia's kapija charred, peeled, garlic-oil bathed, scaled for crowd-feeding. Smoke-r...