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2009.06.03
Salt is the world's favorite flavor enhancer! Sprinkle a little over dinner and transform a humdrum meal into a crowd pleaser. Let vegetables, fruit, meat, or fish sit in salt overnight and the results are positively magical!
PICKLE 塩漬け、酢漬けにする、ピクルス
- To pickle (verb) a vegetable or other food is to preserve it (= keep it from going bad) and give it a salty, sour, etc., taste by keeping it in salt, salt water, vinegar, etc., for a period of time.
A pickle (noun) is a vegetable or fruit that has been preserved in this way.
Be Careful! In the United States, the word pickle (noun) is usually used to mean a pickled cucumber, the kind that is sliced and put on hamburgers or served on the side with sandwiches. - pickle （動詞）は、野菜などの食物をある期間、塩、塩水、お酢などに漬けて、（腐らせないように）保存し、塩味や酸味などを付ける、つまり、塩漬け、酢漬けにする、という意味です。
pickle （名詞）は、このように保存された野菜や果物、つまり、ピクルスのことです。
注意：アメリカでは、名詞の pickle は通常、ピクルスにしたキュウリのことで、スライスしてハンバーガーにのせたり、サンドイッチの付け合せに出したりするものをさします。
- My wife pickles fresh vegetables from the garden in rice bran （ぬか）.
- a: Do you like pickled plums （梅干）?
b: Not really. They're too salty for me. - Meals at our hotel in Nara always came with a small plate of pickled vegetables. My favorite was the pickled eggplant.
- (ordering at a hamburger restaurant)
I'll have the quarter-pounder with cheese and extra pickles, please.
Take care!