Pickling & The Art of Time Travel: Kelly McVicker at TEDxConstitutionDrive

Kelly McVicker is the owner and operator of McVicker Pickles, where she blends her Kansas roots with California flavors via small batch pickles, mustards, and jams. Coming from four generations of Kansas farmers, Kelly learned all about pickling and canning from her grandmas Margarett and Harriet. She left her ten-year career working in women's human rights with a longing to get back to creating something she could touch, taste and feel. Before long she was haggling over boxes of cucumbers at the farmers market, and loving it. Her updated versions of old-school recipes won first place in three categories at the 2012 Eat Real Festival in Oakland. Kelly shares her passion for food preservation via pickling and mustard-making courses at Workshop and forageSF, and blogs about it all with her childhood best friend via The Can Can Girls. A lifelong entrepreneur and explorer, she has lived in Spain and Mexico and is the former owner of a boutique screen-printing company. Kelly holds a B.A. in International Comparative Studies from Duke University.
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