Pickled Eggplant

It’s hard to choose, but if you twist my arm, I’d say this is probably my all-time favorite antipasto. It’s a very traditional southern Italian preparation, and something I grew up eating not just before meals, but at pretty much all hours of the day. (One of my favorite breakfasts was a big scoop of this on a piece of bread that my siblings and I would eat on the way to school, olive oil dripping all over our clothes.) Today, I like to serve it with burrata because I love the way the sharp