About

Intro

WELCOME TO THE PICKLE CLUB!

We find pickles fascinating. Most of us know there are cucumber-based pickles such as sour, half-sour, sweet, and dill. But there are also thousands of different types of pickles - including sauerkraut, chutney, takuan and kimchi - that come from places all over the world.  Please join us on our journey as we learn more about everything pickled including how this process relates to people, history, religion and culture. We also want to provide a resource for members to learn and interact with the pickle community on a local, national and global level. This is the place to discuss anything as it relates to pickling - including, vendors, recipes and ingredients. So let’s talk pickles!

Crew

JENNIFER TAKAKI, Pickle Correspondent

Jennifer’s background is in journalism.  She might very well be the only person who has dedicated their professional life to reporting about pickles and pickled things.  She’s not a pickle expert (at least not yet), she just loves to eat them.

STANN NAKAZONO, Video Guy

Stann is a filmmaker who has produced works that have been shown in film festivals around the world. He says he loves working on The Pickle Club stories because he is learning interesting things that he might never have otherwise known.

Story

“Why Pickles?”

This is usually one of the first things people ask when they hear about this website.

Well, when Jennifer was six-years old, she founded The Pickle Club.  Essentially she and her best friend would sit underneath her father’s work bench and eat a pickle every day after school while discussing the day’s events.  As time had passed, their ritual continued, and then one day she dubbed it, The Pickle Club.  Her early entrepreneurial skills were already fermenting as she dubbed herself President and her best friend Vice-President.

She then carefully wrote the words “The Pickle Club” on a white paper plate and hammered it to the side of the wooden work bench.  She even made membership cards with puffy paint.  Fast forward through time, and she is now the President and Founder of The Pickle Club Inc.

So there is a lesson to be learned here, you just never know what childhood predilections may lead to.  Her advice to parents?…be worried if your kid drinks pickle juice!