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With Cinco de Mayo upon us, we all have beer on the brain. Sure, Mexican lagers and taco parties might be on your mind, but let's kick that up a notch with homemade beer-pickled jalapenos. They'll ...

My whole life, the smoky, vinegar-laced scent of pickled jalapeños — and their little-known origin story — has been lingering under my nose. I grew up with immigrant parents in California, and at any ...

Chef Claudette Zepeda doesn’t just like verduras encurtidas — she needs them. The pickled vegetables were a staple of her childhood, a jar of them anchoring the kitchen table on a big round plate ...

One of the best ways to build flavor is layering, or using one ingredient in two ways or at different stages of cooking. Using the zest of a lemon in cake batter, for instance, while using the juice ...

There’s nothing like the slap of heat and bracing acidity of a pickled pepper. “Pickling mellows the grassiness that fresh peppers can sometimes have,” my colleague Aaron Hutcherson wrote recently in ...

A cheesy jalapeño bacon quarter pounder is joining the McDonald's menu Averi Kremposky is an editorial intern at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...