Smothered in sour cream, pickles, and tomato, it turns New York's best pita into one of New York's best burgers.
Her letters to the children are more candid, and it is she who notes the plugholes without plugs, the gargantuan lunches of "death-dealing" portions – fried eggs, vodka, cherry brandy, blinis and sour cream, pickled eggs, smoked fish, caviare, more vodka.
Ice cream, pickled eggs, stuffed olives, garden hoses, cap pistols, cat food: as I go down the rows I'm put in mind of a back roads bodega, a Southern version of a general store in the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood where I used to live.
When he came back with a vanilla ice cream cone, Pickle was snoozing in his little bed.
In the Pacific Northwest there is a popular sauce called "Goop" made with mayo, mustard, sour cream, and pickle relish.
Requested he keep a food journal and how he felt at the time: 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, piece of chocolate cake, ice cream cone, pickle, slice of Swiss cheese, slice of salami, lollipop, piece of cherry pie, 1 sausage, cupcake, slice of watermelon, 1 green leaf.
Then there is Honza the Hero's OGC: spiced aubergine, tomato and borlotti bean fritter, cream cheese, pickled slaw, sunflower seeds and watercress.
Deep fried in a blanket of sage-scented pork sausage and fat panko bread crumbs, they are wonderful with or without the mustard cream and pickled cucumbers that accompany them.
While the new book rightly restores sections that fell to Ms. Guarnaschelli's pen -- the ice cream and pickling sections, for example -- it goes too far in its effort to rebuild the family house.
Pregnant women are said to crave extremely unlikely food combinations, from ice cream and pickles to strawberry and tuna.
Runner-ups: Try the Frito Pie in a Bag, a sort of nacho dip with Fritos, chili con carne, cheddar cheese, lettuce, sour cream, and pickled jalapenos, served in an open Fritos bag.
