but pickled gherkins can be found year-round. If buying fresh gherkins, look for small, firm, unblemished specimens. Pickled ones should be bright green, and the vinegar should be clear.

Here is a panorama of things Poles pickle: from gherkins through fermented-flour soup, all the way to pickled saffron milk-cap mushrooms. To quote the poet and satirist Ludwik Jerzy Kern, a ...

Gherkin, horde, uhlan, kielbasa, schlub... The Internet is full of examples of words of (supposedly) Polish origin that have made it into the global English lexicon (here’s a full list). These are ...

but pickled gherkins can be found year-round. If buying fresh gherkins, look for small, firm, unblemished specimens. Pickled ones should be bright green, and the vinegar should be clear.