Freda uses jars to save everything from a chocolate chip cookie to the full moon, just as her grandmother saves summer blueberries. Includes a recipe for blueberry jam.

Make all the Preserves You Love Sweeter than Ever, For Healthier Canning at Home! After years of addressing questions reducing sugar, substituting sugar, and leaving it out altogether, author Marisa McClellan began to rejigger her recipes, helping her home canners enjoy the flavors of the season without the refined sugars. The result is “Naturally Sweet Food in Jars”, preserving in the tenor of today's health-conscious audience. The inventive...

"The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It offers more ideas for adventurous culinary DIYers to stock the larder with artisan food and drink, kitchen staples, tasty snacks, and gift-worthy eats. Want to make your own Plum Catsup (can it!), Strawberry Black Pepper Soda (bottle it!), and Chipotles in adobo (smoke it!)? Join food writer Karen Solomon in the culinary revolution that has changed the way people think about the boxed...

"The refrigerator may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of twentieth-century science--lifesaver, food preserver, social liberator. Part historical narrative, part scientific decoder, Chilled looks at early efforts to harness the cold at the ice pits of Persia (Iranians still call their fridges the "ice pit") and ice harvests on the Regents Canal. As people learned more about what cold actually was, scientists invented machines for...

With rising food costs, the resurgence of at-home gardening, and the potential storing your own food presents, it is no wonder that freezing, drying, and canning are becoming more popular. This book will show anyone interested in storing food how to do so, optimizing the amount of money you can save and minimizing your risk of damaging food or spreading foodborne illnesses. You will learn how to grow for harvest and how to subsequently handle that...

With a little planning and foresight, refrigeration is absolutely not necessary. In this book, the author discusses how to store food and make delicious meals without the use of a refrigerator. From milk and cheese to eggs and meat, the book lays out ways any boater, hiker, or camper can have home-cooked meals without artificially freezing or cooling their food. Broken down into handy categories, this reference guide gives techniques on how to properly...

"A celebrated young chef hailed by the New York Times as a "fearless explorer," brings time-tested heritage techniques to the modern home kitchen. Executive chef and owner of New York City's highly acclaimed Ducks Eatery and Harry & Ida's, Will Horowitz is also an avid forager, fisherman, and naturalist. In Salt Smoke Time, he explores ideas of self-reliance, sustainability, and seasonality, illuminating our connection to the natural world and the...

The kitchen ecosystem starts with cooking the freshest ingredients you can find and, while you're at the stove (and have your pots out), preserving and harnessing leftover components to use in future dishes. Bones, shells, and stems create stocks; the extra juices from canning fruits make granitas and syrups; and marinades and pickling liquids flavor just about everything. The smalls steps of maintaining an array of "supporting ingredients" actually...

Craving a juicy peach in the barren midwinter? Yearning for a cupful of home-grown tomato soup before the seeds are even in the ground? Canning makes you the ultimate boss of your food supply all year 'round and helps you reduce costs and maintain quality control over what you eat--and to be prepared in times of food shortages. And Canning & Preserving For Dummies shows you how to do it all, helping you explore hundreds-of-years-old traditions of...

As part of their commitment to increasing self-reliance and resiliency, Wendy and Eric Brown decided to spend a year incorporating wild edibles into their regular diet. Their goal was to use native flora and fauna to help bridge the gap between what their family could produce and what they needed to survive. The experience fundamentally changed their definition of food. Packed with a wealth of information on collecting, preparing, and preserving...