The Ultimate Pickle Lover's Book is a nice homage for pickle lovers collected and curated by Princess Gabbara and Kelly Jaggers. Released 30th Dec 2025 by Simon & Schuster on their Adams imprint, it's 160 pages and is available in hardcover and ebook formats.
This is a nice, upbeat, surprisingly varied bunch of recipes for using pickles in appetizers, dips, and other accompaniments. In addition, it's full of jokes, trivia, and culture tidbits which are entertaining and relevant to pickle-interested readers.
The book's recipes are arranged a bit chaotically, scattered between trivia, games, and factoids. It's a book to page through for fun, not so much a cookbook. Each recipe is written with yields, estimated prep time, bullet list of ingredients, and step by step prep and cooking directions. Ingredient measures are given in imperial (American) measurements only.
Most of the ingredients will be readily available at well stocked grocers in most of North America/Europe.
The vibe throughout is fun, very young (mostly kid-friendly) and casual. There are no photographs or curated/styled serving suggestions.Three and a half stars. This would be a fun choice for public or school library acquisition, home use, or gift giving.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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