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quote[0]="In Korea today, most homes have a special refrigerator reserved for <i>kimchi,</i> the country's traditional pickled vegetable dish."
quote[1]="Each spring in Atkins, Arkansas, there&#146;s a Pickle Fest, featuring free tours at the local pickle-packing plant, a booth selling fried dill pickles, and pickle-eating and pickle juice­drinking contests."
quote[2]="Today, 85% of the cabbage harvested in Germany is fermented to make sauerkraut."
quote[3]="In Fiji, where communities have historically fermented fruit in pits, parents did not give consent for their daughter's marriage until they inspected the prospective groom's pits&#151;considered an indicator of whether he was a good provider."
quote[4]="Cleopatra ate vinegar pickles, and believed they gave her beauty."
quote[5]="If a cucumber in a pickling solution ferments too quickly, carbon dioxide can build up in the vegetable. Sometimes, this causes the cucumber&#146;s insides to explode, yielding a hollow pickle known among picklers as a &#147;bloater.&#148;"
quote[6]="Some vegetables are more nutritious when they&#146;re pickled than when they&#146;re fresh. That&#146;s because the bacteria produce vitamins during fermentation."
quote[7]="Up to the eighteenth century, the Scottish buried kegs of butter in peat bogs, slowly fermenting it for seven years before eating it."
quote[8]="Each winter in Korea, the average family of five eats enough kimchi to use up 30 large cabbages."
quote[9]="Neolithic peoples in Europe fermented nettles, cardoons, and new growths of willow and birch trees to make sour soups."
quote[10]="As American pioneers settled the Western frontier in the 1700s and 1800s, they relied on pickled vegetables for survival."
quote[11]="As early as 1000 B.C., Middle Eastern peoples were pickling crab apples, pears, plums, and walnuts by preserving them in vinegar and spices."


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