Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation

With over 250 delicious easy recipes, this canning and preserving cookbook offers techniques to store fruits and vegetables all year round without compromising their nutritional qualities.

This essential guide to eating healthy food throughout the seasons introduces readers to traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition without freezing or boiling first. These superior methods are accessible for “kitchen gardeners” of all experience levels and are less costly and more energy efficient.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Preserve without nutrient loss
• Preserve by drying
• Preserve with oil, vinegar, salt, and sugar
• Make sweet-and-sour preserves
• Preserve with alcohol

With more than 250 recipes from contributors around the world accompanied by anecdotes and history, this comprehensive canning book is a must-read for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world.

About the Authors:

Deborah Madison is a freelance writer and board member of the Foundation for Bio-Diversity and the Seed Savers Exchange, among others. As a freelance writer she has contributed to Cooking Light, Williams Sonoma's Taste, Vegetarian Times, Gourmet, Food and Wine, Bon Appetit, Garden Design, Fine Cooking, Organic Style, the LA Times, Orion, and others.

Eliot Coleman has over fifty years experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field vegetables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower, Four-Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook, as well as the instructional workshop DVD Year-Round Vegetable Production with Eliot Coleman. Coleman and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, presently operate a commercial year-round market garden, in addition to horticultural research projects, at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine.