Place some pan drippings from the pork on the plate. Place pork down and top with escabeche vegetables and fresh greens. Serve with cornbread.

cream-colored brickwork and ice boxes of escabeche mussels and fresh shrimp, had come seeking sophistication. So why was there so much white bread? Nearly every customer was eating the 39-year ...

I didn’t realize it as a kid, but pescado en escabeche, a dish of fried or sauteed fish almost pickled in a vinegar-based sauce, is a link between the disparate cultures of my parents.

In Mexican cuisine, “escabeche” most often refers to an appealing mix of pickled vegetables. Used as a topping, it adds big-time pizzazz to everything from grilled fish to tacos to tostadas.

Sardines escabeche was the first time that I tried this technique, and I’ve never looked back. I’ve used it on everything from vegetables to fruit, for delicate geoduck clam, rare squab ...