"Putting Food By" has sold more than 550,000 copies since it was first published. This new revised edition updates the information and adds several new sections on how to: preserve with less sugar and salt make better-than-store-bought foods at home freeze for the microwave preserve and can for the small family can and freeze convenience foods ...
Charcuterie - a culinary specialty that originally referred to the creation of pork products such as salami, sausages and prosciutto - is true food craftsmanship, the art of turning preserved food into items of beauty and taste. Today the term encompasses a vast range of preparations, most of which involve salting, cooking, smoking and drying. In ...
This volume provides information on the techniques and tools for preserving food by freezing, drying, or canning. Tips for using the microwave, suggestions for the best method to match preservation techniques to specific foods, a troubleshooting section, and recipes.
From Rodale, America's premier authority on natural foods, comes the most comprehensive, up-to-date resource for putting up foods of all kinds. 101 line drawings.
With 150 recipes for both sweet and savoury preserves, this book offers advice on preserving seasonal fruits, vegetables and herbs. There is a discussion of preserving equipment and techniques and practical information on sterilizing jars, packaging and labelling.
For all the vegetable gardeners facing baskets overflowing with bright tomatoes, and for all the dedicated farmers' market fans and CSA members, "The Beginner's Guide to Preserving Food at Home" has the simple solutions that turn overwhelming bounty into neatly canned tomatoes, jars of jams and jellies, and crispy-tart relishes and pickles. ...
All of America's favorite canning and preserving recipes are presented in a single mouth-watering volume. Recipes are based on food preservation guidelines set by the USDA. Included throughout are special tip boxes that suggest ways to package foods for gift-giving.
Food preservation techniques can be divided into two categories: the modern scientific methods that remove life from food, and the natural 'poetic' methods that maintain or enhance life in food, " writes Coleman in his foreword to Keeping Food Fresh. "The poetic techniques produce live foods like those celebrated for centuries and considered ...
From primitive drying and salting techniques to advancements in food preservation that have allowed us to send humans into space, "Pickled, Potted, and Canned" offers insight into the history, culture, and ingenuity of people struggling to feed themselves and "cheat the seasons". 35 illustrations.
This guide to a staggering array of preserved foods--from plum jam to pickles to pastrami--includes directions for making and serving, as well as ideas from around the world.
Far more than a simple update and revision, "The Handbook of Food Spoilage Yeasts, Second Edition" extends and restructures its scope and content to include important advances in the knowledge of microbial ecology, molecular biology, metabolic activity, and strategy for the prohibition and elimination of food borne yeasts. The author incorporates ...
This new book updates and expands Harold Burton's classic book, "UHT Processing of Milk and Milk Products", to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of thermal processing of liquid and particulate foods. The food products covered now include soups, sauces, fruit juices, and other beverages, in addition to milk and milk products. ...
The processing of food is no longer simple or straightforward, but is now a highly inter-disciplinary science. A number of new techniques have developed to extend shelf-life, minimize risk, protect the environment, and improve functional, sensory, and nutritional properties. The ever-increasing number of food products and preservation techniques ...
This book discusses how the agents of food biodeterioration operate, and examines the commercially-used industrial methods available to control them, allowing the production of safe and wholesome foods. There is an emphasis on the equipment employed to carry out the various methods of preservation.
This important book covers the main types of materials that food scientists have to deal with. Special attention is given to starch and gluten as being of particular importance in food science and not typical of general classes of substance. The book approaches the subject matter form a physics viewpoint. Based on the fundamental quantitative ...
"Advances in Thermal and Non-Thermal Food Preservation" provides current, definitive and factual material written by experts on different thermal and non-thermal food preservation technologies. Emphasizing inactivation of microorganisms through the application of traditional as well as newer and novel techniques and their combinations, the book's ...
This volume provides the reader with the updated state-of-the-art in the Modified Atmospheres field. It explains the Modified Atmospheres Method which is derived from the ancient Hermetic Storage Technique of keeping grain and seeds, which was practiced in Middle Eastern and other ancient cultures. This unique work covers all aspects of the field ...
Food inventions have not only changed what people eat, but also how people live their lives. Before canned, pasteurized, refrigerated, frozen, and genetically modified food was stocked floor to ceiling in supermarkets, people had to grow or hunt for everything that they ate. Learn how food has changed through history.
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