Home preserving is having a renaissance. Everyone, including our neighbors and friends, seems to be preserving these days and sharing their creations and the stories behind them. To extend their ...

It’s wonderful, sometimes, to learn just how wrong you’ve been. Growing up in late 20th century American culture, it was easy for me to see preserved vegetables as the domain of Western cuisines.

Home canning, like raising your own vegetables, has taken on new meaning and urgency during the pandemic. Last spring, people who hadn’t planted a garden in years — or perhaps ever — started growing ...

I’ve been preparing, though I’m not exactly sure for what. I stand at my kitchen counter for hours at a time, nights in a row, washing, trimming, shelling, chopping, shearing, packing in oil, in ...