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In a Pickle
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How did a jar of pickles keep Julius Caesar's legions marching, Cleopatra beautiful, Captain Cook's sailors alive, and Napoleon's armies fed — and why does the same basic technology of salt water and a vegetable keep reappearing at every major turning point in human history? What is the true story of the poisoned green pickle, the Heinz pickle pin that required police crowd control at the 1893 World's Fair, and the man who went over Niagara Falls in two welded plastic pickle barrels? And, why does Connecticut law require that a pickle must bounce?
Join John and Patrick as they tell the global history of the pickle — ten thousand years of brine, from Mesopotamia to the Lower East Side deli...
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