. They have it equipped with a double oven and an old Viking six-burner that they use mostly for canning in the Summer and Fall…all this salvaged from jobsites that he’s worked on over the years. There are also three wood burning...

I’m really nervous about those canning/preserving (some weird early stories about botulism, I’m guessing) but I want to get over my fears, and would be interested in that kind of book too.

it was like I was a 16yr old who just discovered sex. :-) Never stop experimenting with new flavours and new cuisines. On a Chinese kick right now. Love the stuff. Even doing canning. Have enough homemade stock, salsa, pickeled...

My beef (or my carne, whatever) is that the show is, unlike every other public television show ever created, not informative or educational enough. Maybe that allows them to sound less canned, but in this case I could do with a...

Yup, that’s the one. There are some real lulus in that book, no doubt! And at this point, I would consider it to be an important cultural artifact along with the shelves full of Beef Board/Dairy Council/Jello Corp./ Home...

, no debate... nothing we can learn from, other than that you are a person of faith (in Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup and Kraft Mac’n Cheese!). BTW, I have nothing against canning or packaging per se – the...

to see everyone’s baking and canning projects in the Creative Activities Building. Plus, you can see all the amazing things you can do with your food besides eat it (making sculptures out of butter —Dairy...

... consider home-canning in-season when prices are inexpensive. From someone who has trouble boiling eggs ... It isn’t that hard. There is nothing like pulling out strawberry jam in the dead of January ... reminding you of...

cooking — three full meals a day — was from scratch. Made their own bread, for the most part. Did their own canning in glass Mason jars. Many milked their own cows, churned their own butter, and considered flour a...

My two faves: Blueberries for Sal- Though I grew up In Jersey, I was lucky enough to spend a lot of summers in Maine and New Hampshire- this is the book that managed to keep me going the rest of the year! (as well as instilling a...

La Choy was founded by a Detroit grocer in 1922, who wanted to market fresh bean sprouts to his customers; with a Korean college classmate, he came up with the successful strategy of canning them in glass jars. I’ve never...

, there are all kinds of ways of preserving food —canning and drying and freezing and curing and so on—that someone who is truly struggling to support their family on a limited income would, of course, try take...

I’m totally with you! Canned tuna is a totally legitimate food. It’s a method of preservation, so proscuitto, cured olives and cheeses are as much fake foods as canned tuna. I believe there’s a pretty rich...

that often (only on Saturday nights :-). Milk came from cows, vegetables were from the garden or the canning in the basement. Mom is an awesome cook, uncle married a french woman and she was awesome...still remember her mashed...

so there is no point. And canning and pickle making. Just no time. Once in awhile, if I can get really good green beans I will make hot dill bean pickles.