United Pickles, Spears, 5 gl. Tubs

United Pickle is one of the last of what were once scores of pickle companies in New York City that helped elevate a common deli staple into a culinary treat. United Pickle, which traces its roots to the 1890s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is owned by Mr. Leibowitz and Marvin Weishaus, 61, the president of the company. Mr. Leibowitz and Mr. Weishaus, third- and fourth-generation pickle men, merged the traditions and the secret recipes of their families in 1979.