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This is not your grandmother's canning book. The renewed interest in preserving fresh food brings a modern look to an age-old tradition. Yes, You Can offers a fresh new approach to preserving food with its step-by-step illustrated guide to canning, storing, freezing, drying, pickling, sugaring and preserving. This book offers the how-to and the why-do of canning and preserving fresh food, and you can do this in less time and with less equipment than in days past. Experienced home-canner and author Daniel Gasteiger includes tips, techniques, and recipes for making james, jellies, and preservers, drying, freezing, and so much more.

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Surfire Techniques and Great Recipes for Keeping the Harvest!

"Preserving Summer's Bounty takes a giant step ahead in preserving advice. This up-to-the minute guide pays tribute to your grandmother's techniques for 'putting up' vegetables, but what I like best are the quick and easy modern methods using the microwave, the freezer and more. These fast answers should lure even the busiest among us into storing the precious harvest of the garden."
-Marian Morash, Author of The Victory Garden Cookbook

"Preserving Summer's Bounty is a treasure trove of sage advice and enticing recipes. It's a delightful book that will let you enjoy your garden's harvest all year long."
-Carol Hupping, Editor of Stocking Up III

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In the visually stunning yet practical cookbook Eating Local, author Janet Fletcher and the kitchen experts at Sur La Table not only show you how to use more fresh ingredients in your everyday cooking, they also bring you closer to the family farms where the ingredients are grown and to the idealistic people who grow them.

With 150 recipes featuring a wide range of fresh ingredients, Eating Local also highlights 10 community supported agriculture projects around the country. These progressive farms provide inspiration for all who want to cook more wholesome meals using ingredients from their own foodshed.

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Part cookbook, part cultural education, part family memoir, The Amish Cook's Anniversary Book: 20 Years of Food, Family, and Faith celebrates two decades of home and hearth straight from the pens of the original Amish Cook, Elizabeth Coblentz, and her daughter and successor, Lovina Eicher.

Featured inside are classic recipes such as Cucumber Salad, Homemade Cheese Soup, Rhubarb Custard Pie, Poor Man's Steak, Asparagus Casserole, Frosty Strawberry Squares, and Yumasetti; a sampling of the best columns from "The Amish Cook" archives; reflections on Amish history and lore, including stories of old-order days; and glimpses into special events such as weddings, funerals, church services, butchering days, family reunions, and holidays.

More than 30 recipes are featured alongside evocative full-color photographs and descriptive monthly columns on topics ranging from cooking and gardening to family meals and celebrations—each offering insight on a culture rooted in food, family, friends, and faith.

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Popular food blogger Marisa McClellan takes you through all manner of food in jars, storing away the tastes of all seasons for later. Basics like jams and jellies are accompanied by pickles, chutneys, conserves, whole fruit, tomato sauces, salsas, marmalades, nut butters, seasonings, and more. Small batches make them easy projects for a canning novice to tackle, and the flavors of vanilla bean, sage, and pepper will keep more experienced jammers coming back for more.

Sample some Apricot Jam and Rhubarb Syrup in the spring, and then try your hand at Blueberry Butter and Peach Salsa in the summer; Dilly Beans and Spicy Pickled Cauliflower ring in the fall, while Three-Citrus Marmalade and Cranberry Ketchup are the harbingers of winter.

Stories of wild blackberry jam and California Meyer lemon marmalade from McClellan’s childhood make for a read as pleasurable as it is delicious; her home-canned food—learned from generations of the original “foodies”—feeds the soul as well as the body in more than 100 recipes.

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For more than 30 years, Putting Food By has been the go-to-resource for preserving foods - from fruit and vegetables, to meat and seafood. Now, this essential volume has been updated to reflect the latest information on equipment, ingredients, health and safety issues, and resources. Whether motivated by economics or the desire to capture the taste of local, seasonal food at its peak, home cooks have made preserving today's hottest food trend. There are many books on canning, but Putting Food By stands out as the classic that has stood the test of time.

• Covers canning, freezing, salting, smoking, drying, and root cellaring
• Includes mouthwatering recipes for pickles, relishes, jams, and jellies

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There’s nothing sweeter than fresh fruit in the summertime, whether it’s strawberries straight from the vine or raspberries from your local market. And there’s nothing like an autumn apple from an orchard bursting with crisp delights. If only you could enjoy these and other fruits every day of the year--and now with Jams and Preserves, you can!

With more than 100 recipes for jams, jellies, preserves, and chutneys, Jams and Preserves lets you eat your favorite fruits and vegetables whenever you crave them. From blueberry preserves to lime marmalade, banana jam to Thai sweet chili sauce, the condiments contained in this book are easy to make and easy to love. And with recipes for everything from cookies like Princess fingers with raspberry jam to pork vindaloo with green mango chutney, Jams and Preserves can also be used to create entire meals you’ll love to eat.

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Dehydrating is one of the most effective ways to preserve food for maximum nutrition at very low cost. Sales of dehydrators are soaring as many cooks reject the suspect ingredients in commercially prepared foods. Dehydrating with the recipes in this book is one way to control all ingredients and please the whole family.

Recipes for dried ingredients include herbs and seasonings, fruits, fruit leathers, vegetables and beef jerky. These nutritious ingredients are included in delicious recipes such as:

• Beef and potato stew
• Chicken pot pie
• Vegetable lasagna
• Zucchini and red pepper fritters
• Dried tomato and basil polenta
• Mushroom, herb and white wine sauce
• Strawberry rhubarb tarts.

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Can’t resist that flat of fresh berries? What to make with a bumper crop of tomatoes? Have a penchant for pickles?

Featuring everything you need to know to put up the seasons’ bounty, Williams-Sonoma The Art of Preserving illuminates how to savor your favorite fresh produce year-round. From beginners looking to learn, to those familiar with the technique, everyone will appreciate this contemporary and comprehensive approach to preserving the wealth of fruits and vegetables from backyard gardens and farmers’ markets.

Packed with inspiring recipes for preserves, from Apricot Jam to Pickled Fennel with Orange Zest to Preserved Lemons, this title provides a wealth of ideas for making the most of the harvest. Additional recipes showcase the many ways that preserved foods can be used in finished dishes, from savory starters to flavorful main courses to sweet desserts.

Lush photography celebrates the natural beauty of seasonal produce, while step-by-step instruction and helpful tips from professionals offer all the guidance you need to become a preserving expert.

From luscious jams and jellies to savory pickles and relishes, make the most of garden-fresh fruits and vegetables through preserving. With over 130 recipes, step-by-step techniques, helpful tips from professionals, and scores of inspiring ideas for ways to use preserves in other recipes, this comprehensive cookbook provides everything you need to master the art in your own kitchen.