I'm trying to find a story that I read a year ago about a Zen Monk who ate pickles all the time.?

Question

URL's welcome.

Answer 1

Perhaps you are thinking of the writings of the monk Takuan Soho who has a pickle named after him, and not for no reason. Many of them can be found in the book, "The Unfettered Mind".

http://www.amazon.com/Unfettered-Mind-Writings-Master-Sword/dp/087011851X

Answer 2

Takuan, made from the two-foot long white daikon radishes we grow in the monastic garden, takes its name from the 17th century Zen monk Takuan Osho, a master of tea and the sword, who perfected the process of pickling vegetables in a mud of salted rice bran. Outside the monastery’s kitchen door, in the pickle shed, there are rows and rows of barrels and crocks full of fermenting daikon. They give off a tang of musty socks.

Bon apetit!
TxR