New Orleans chef Isaac Toups remembers the very first time he made pickles. He was young and with his dad, and they went with a double-dill (meaning brined twice) that called for brown sugar and hot sauce. Toups recalls his father proclaiming that he’d invented the recipe but, according to Toups — considered by many the chef at the forefront of a new generation of Cajun chefs — “Cajuns have a funny way with the truth.”

Origin story aside, this