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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 Freezing or Canning offers more than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients. It is an essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world.
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Eliot has over 30 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 (Chelsea Green, 1989, revised, expanded second edition, 1995), Four Season Harvest (Chelsea Green, 1992, revised, expanded second edition, 1999) and The Winter Harvest Manual. He has contributed chapters to three scientific books on organic agriculture and has written extensively on the subject since 1975. He also wrote the foreward to Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques and Recipes (1999), by the gardeners and farmers of Terre Vivant. During his careers as a commercial market gardener, the director of agricultural research projects, and as a teacher and lecturer on organic gardening he has studied, practiced and perfected his craft. He served for two years as the Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements and was an advisor to the US Department of Agriculture during their landmark 1979-80 study, Report and Recommendations on Organic Farming. He has conducted study tours of organic farms, market gardens, orchards, and vineyards in Europe and has successfully combined European ideas with his own to develop and popularize a complete system of tools and equipment for organic vegetable growers. He shares that expertise through his lectures and writings, and has served as a tool consultant to a number of companies. He presently consults and designs tools for Johnny's Selected Seeds. With his wife Barbara Damrosch, he was the host of the TV series Gardening Naturally on The Learning Channel. He and Barbara presently operate a commercial year-round market garden, in addition to horticultural research projects, at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine. For more information visithttp://fourseasonfarm.com
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59 of 61 people found the following review helpful
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Knowledge from a different day,
By kanelva porch (the universe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques (Paperback)
This book is a collection of 'recipies' from folks who still know how to preserve food the way it done before fridges, pressure canning, big industry food, etc.This is how they put up food to get them through the seasons. Ever thought about letting tomatoes rot for a week ( stirred daily ), then putting them in a wine bottle with some salt and pepper, sticking it in a closet for a few months, pouring off the mold, then eating it? It is delicious, and I am still alive to tell the tale. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in preserving food, reducing energy usage, living and raw food ( uh... what's that term Kraft is marketing now... bioactive or something like that? ), and generally trying to do the right thing, not the easy thing.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I'll need to give context here before starting this review. I bought this book with other books of the same kind, one about cold storage, another about preserving seeds. I read them all during spring and summer, thinking about now, in autumn and ready for the harvest and what to do with the produce coming out of my garden.This book is the one I ended up using most because, unlike cold storage (which was also an excellent book I'm sure to use eventually), it is not time consuming to set up. It also always surprised me with gems of recipes to do with produces I didn't plan on preserving for the winter (nasturtium capers, rosehips in all forms, wines of all kinds...). The little piece of story at the beginning of the chapters are inspiring and well written. The recipes come from around the world, it is not just the experience of the writer. This book is a gold mine for someone who has too much of a produce and no cold storage in place and it's easy and fast to use ; pop the book at the end in the index and check what you can do with your surplus of peppers!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Tasty and Green!,
By Garden Diva (Vancouver, CAN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques (Paperback)
This is a great book for people who want to go beyond common home-canning techniques. The best part - many of the techniques in here are actually less work than slaving over a hot canner all day, AND have more nutritional value and flavour! What could be better!?I'm an avid urban farmer and this book has been huge help in making sure none of the harvest goes to waste. Many of the recipes require low or no energy, which is a concern that is often forgotten in the new food movement. I'd recommend this for anyone who loves to garden and values the importance of whole, living, delicious foods.
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