My New Book—Ice Cream: A Global History

Pickle Day Slated for Oct. 17 on Lower East Side

I don’t want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
Well, Arlo Guthrie may prefer motor bikes to pickles, but not me!  If you’re a pickle lover stop by the 10th annual International Pickle Day on Broom Street between Orchard and Ludlow on the Lower East Side.
There are pickle samples from around the world, says [...]

New York Pickle Day Set for Oct. 4

Update:
If you really love pickles, see what the Museum of Natural History planning doing Oct. 13.

Love pickles?
This year’s Ninth Annual NYC International Pickle Day, slated for Oct. 4, promises more free briny tidbits than ever before.
From India to Haiti—and yes, as close by as the Lower East Side—pickled tidbits from around the world will be [...]

Guss’ Pickles Leaves the Lower East Side for Brooklyn

Curbed reports via the The Low-Down that Guss’ Pickles is decamping from the Lower East Side for Brooklyn in the next few months, leaving behind what remains of the area’s old time nosheris– Katz’s, Yonah Schimmel, Russ & Daughters and Kossar’s Bialys.
Guss’ Pickles
85 Orchard St.
New York, NY 10002
212 334 3616

Chinatown/Lower East Side: Vanessa’s Dumpling House

It’s hard to spend more than $10 on a meal at Vanessa’s Dumpling House on Eldridge St on the Lower East Side.
You’re not going to want to linger in this place.  It’s spare, dingy and cramped with a few rickety tables pushed close together and a narrow counter where you can huddle with your dumplings.  [...]