The pepper world is wide and wondrous, brimming with preserved and pickled possibilities, among them, jarred pimentos—but wait, what is a pimento, exactly? A pimento is a chile pepper, and it can do ...

These aren’t my mama’s olives. Not the pickle-like sharpness of the pimiento-stuffed olives that swam in Mom’s occasional martinis. Not the pitted crow-feather black olives that cuddled between ...