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What is Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning about?
Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition. Translated into English, and with a new foreword by Deborah Madison, this book deliberately ignores freezing and high-temperature canning in favor of methods that are superior because they are less costly and more energy-efficient. As Eliot Coleman says in his foreword to the first edition, "Food preservation techniques can be divided into two categories: the modern scientific methods that remove the life from food, and the natural 'poetic' methods that maintain or enhance the life in food. The poetic techniques produce... foods that have been celebrated for centuries and are considered gourmet delights today." __Preserving Food Without...__
Who reads Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Deborah Madison
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Cooking
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (857 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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