Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. I am a pickle girl through and through. Pickle chips, tubs of kimchi, salty kalamata olives, tangy pickled mustard ...

All you need for pink, salty and puckery umeboshi (Japanese pickled plums) are plums and fine sea salt. (Betty Hallock) I’ve been addicted to umeboshi (Japanese pickled plums) since I was a kid who ...

Umeboshi are traditional fermented Japanese pickles made from under-ripe ume—the fruit of Prunus mume, a Japanese apricot. Fermented in a syrupy brine, the firm, raw ume are transformed into soft and ...

I FIRST FELL IN LOVE with the puckery-tart flavor of ume plums at the sushi bar. Frugality led me to it: A vegetarian roll made with salty plum paste and grassy shiso leaves was a very pleasant way to ...

Continuing on with our tahini theme, today we combine this rich sesame paste with umeboshi. Described as the least sweet fruit, I consider ume a best-kept culinary secret. Tangy, salty, with a deep ...

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I am usually a whipped cream purist. Heavy cream doesn’t need to be flavored, as it already has a flavor—the flavor of cream. I rarely sweeten heavy cream before whipping, especially if it’s destined ...

I’ve been addicted to umeboshi (Japanese pickled plums) since I was a kid who didn’t like much else, but I never thought to make my own until the pandemic-instigated lockdown. By the time I took my ...