I was rummaging through some second-hand bookstores this weekend looking for a copy of an out-of-print book when I came across this handy little book called Creative Pickling at Home, by Barbara Ciletti. It's one of those workbook-looking paperbacks that are usually destined for a home at the bargain bookstore. I have one somewhere in my storage locker that was published by Ortho - the pesticide people - and it was a brilliant cookbook for me when I was learning how to cook with more exotic ingredients, like preserved ginger (this was in like 1992, when that was still interesting).
