Meat Curing: What It Is And How It Works
Curing meat is the product of cultures dealing with the problem of extending shelf life of meat by making it inhospitable to microbes. Evidence …
Wood for Food: a Primer on Pyrolysis
Smoking is valued nowadays not only for preserving food, but also as a distinct set of flavours that can reflect the landscape of the …
DIY Bog Butter: A Gastronomic Perspective
This paper was first published in ‘Wrapped and Stuffed: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2012′. The complete Proceedings is available …
How To Preserve Your Food Through Drying
In August alone, the FDA issued six recalls on commercially-produced food due to the possibility of contamination. These included chicken, beef, and even salad …
Fermentation is the New Canning
While it’s still a little early in the year to think about preserving our homegrown produce for winter, I recently came across an interesting …
Food Dehydration 101 – DiY Food Storage
When we think about preparing our harvest for winter storage, canning is the option that usually comes to mind. Just about any fruit or …