Pickler

This annual 5-hour long extravaganza, held in LES since the late 1990s, "is a neighborhood-wide celebration of all things pickled," where Orchard and Delancey "streets come alive with internationally renowned picklers, local vendors, live music, and activities[and draw] enthusiasts from 'round the globe to remember their pickled roots!"

You'll find sessions on beekeeping, organic farming, and, of course, cheesemaking, along with goods from local bakers, meaderies, picklers, and rival cheesemakers.

The Picklers opened Zounds Hearing of North Mississippi at 6915 Crumpler Avenue across from the Olive Branch Kroger June 10, and plan to open a branch on Wolf River Boulevard in Germantown, Tenn., by the end of July But they aren't just sitting at the office waiting for people to find the business.

As this parade vanished from view, I saw spinster sisters spread chunky marmalade on hunks of hot brown toast, while they sniped at each other over the teapot; widows on the romp; the spindly curate of the slums with his agile Adam's apple, lifting dumb-bells to impress spotty delinquents; the sad general behind the mustard jar, stalking Napoleon with his tin soldiers; skint Romeos in provincial hotels, evangelists and witches, spivs in mirrors, astronauts with bus passes, toothy philatelists, growers of giant marrows, picklers, seedcake bakers and astronomers in pyjamas.

Where Destiny learned to carve butter is anybody's guess, but the kid's a natural, and she poses a real threat to Laura's backup plan: If Bob can't compete, then it's up to her to take up the trowel and keep the Picklers' winning streak going.

`I've been watching the Picklers for years,' said McFadden, who was sixth at the Pac-10 meet last year, and owns a PR of 5,428 points.

There are many authoritative resources available for the aspiring picklers. Please take plenty of precaution, as Botulism, a type of food poisoning, is most unpleasant and potentially deadly.

LG Cup qualifying - Stan James: Evs J Cope v 8-11 S Pettman, 8-15 N Walker v 11-8 A Mahitthi, 4-6 B Jones v 11-10 C Gilchreest, 2-5 S Maguire v 7-4 K Poomjang, 6-6 B Picklers v

It is the time of village cricket, parish fetes, guess-the-weight of the vicar competitions, bingo barkers, onion picklers, seedcake bakers, dandelion wine bottlers, rose queens, coconut shies, country dancers, homemade ale, rock cakes that should have been carbon-dated, archery contests, organ restoration funds, bric-a-brac, new roof appeals, croquet, hooplas, jam, mock stocks in which a hapless dignitary is pelted with wet sponges, ping pong, and newer arrivals such as bouncy castles.

The picklers. You can pickle any cucumber, but the pickling varieties have firm flesh that holds up well during the process.

'Bush Baby', a pickler, was the most vigorous, longest-lived, and largest--not compact by our measurements.