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You may remember the "pickle guy" from Crossing Delancey -- a nice, somewhat nebbishy guy, picked out for the protagonist by an old-school Jewish matchmaker, hired by her grandmother. Well, the pickle man has been revamped, revised, and reincarnated, this time in the form of Rick Field. Rick, profiled in the New York Times, is also single, and could perhaps benefit from a little matchmaking himself:
Mr. Field is a 41-year-old bachelor with a head of hair that might benefit from its own global positioning system. He intermittently enjoys cooking, wears pants repaired by his mother, makes flowers out of tomatillo husks and has written at least one song about a cow. He is also a graduate of Andover and Yale, an aspect of his biography that one might be inclined to gloss over had he chosen any number of professions, but what Mr. Field has elected to do with his life is make pickles.And make pickles he does. He sells about ten varieties of Rick's Picks at the Union Square Greenmarket, at local gourmet outlets like Murray's and Artisanal, and on his website. And they are award-winning pickles -- he has won 10 ribbons at the Rosendale International Pickle Festival since 2001. The varieties go well beyond the traditional cucumber pickle, and include Windy City Wasabeans, green beans in a soy-wasabi brine, Phat Beets, beets in a rosemary brine, and Pepi Pep Peps, pickled roasted pepper. Go say hello to Rick at the Greenmarket -- you may not find romance, but you might just fall in love with his pickles.
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I loved the Pickle Guy in Crossing Delancey - "A joke and a pickle...for only a nickel." This feature did strike me as a cattle call for ladies to bombard Rick Field, though.
Well, my stepmother certainly thought so. Before I even posted this, she had called me to tell me about the article . . .
I've sampled Ricks' goods at the Pickle Festival and the Greenmarket, and they are delicious. Quite pricey, though, at $9 per jar IIRC.
Oh yeah, he needs love.
Just today, I found the first citations for "dough nut" and "cruller," both from 1802. This beats Washington Irving's cites for these foods.
If I see another "Big Unit in Big Apple" or "Beltran in Big Apple" headline, I'll go nuts. They make 119 million dollars. I make nothing. I beg people to tell them that "the Big Apple" doesn't come from whores.
Rick needs love? I also did the origin of "dill pickle"...
Hi, Im doing a project on pickles at school and Im wondering if you will send some product for my school project. It has to be in by Nov 15. He's my addresses:
Steven Grunke
Seward Senoir High School
532 Northern Heights Dr.
Seward, Ne 68434
If you don't have any product email me at boomootwo@yahoo.com
Hi, Im doing a project on pickles at school and Im wondering if you will send some product for my school project. It has to be in by Nov 15. He's my addresses:
Steven Grunke
Seward Senoir High School
532 Northern Heights Dr.
Seward, Ne 68434
If you don't have any product email me at boomootwo@yahoo.com
Hi, Im doing a project on pickles at school and Im wondering if you will send some product for my school project. It has to be in by Nov 15. He's my addresses:
Steven Grunke
Seward Senoir High School
532 Northern Heights Dr.
Seward, Ne 68434
If you don't have any product email me at boomootwo@yahoo.com
Hi, Im doing a project on pickles at school and Im wondering if you will send some product for my school project. It has to be in by Nov 15. He's my addresses:
Steven Grunke
Seward Senoir High School
532 Northern Heights Dr.
Seward, Ne 68434
If you don't have any product email me at boomootwo@yahoo.com