Where have all the pickles gone? It wasn’t so long ago that every well-dressed American dinner table was bejeweled with an assortment of them -- emerald green tomatoes, ruby red beets and opalescent ...

There was a nose-tingling aroma of boiling vinegar and heady spices in the kitchen of Zola restaurant in Washington on a recent morning. But there wasn’t a canning jar in sight. Grandma never put up ...