New Cookbooks: Hugh Acheson's 'Pick a Pickle' Cookbook

If you are the type who likes to roll up your sleeves and pickle fruits and veggies once the weather gets warmer then arm yourself with Hugh Acheson's new cookbook.

Titled Pick a Pickle: 50 Recipes for Pickles, Relishes, and Fermented Snacks, the chef's unconventional cookbook fans out so it can be read like recipe cards. You'll find recipes for Southern favorites like pickled green tomatoes and pickled peaches. There are also instructions for popular condiments like cabbage kimchi, icebox dill pickles and much more.

With these easy recipes you'll be able to learn some of Acheson's secrets to creating amazing foods. The chef, who frequently appears as guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef, is a James Beard Award winner and partner of the restaurants Five & Ten, The National, and Empire South in Georgia.

Pick a Pickle was published by Potter Style and retails for $11.94 on Amazon. It would be a great compliment to our FDL guide to preserving summer fruit and our step-by-step guide to vegetable preservation.