“I need you to stay out of the kitchen for a while. I am pressure canning green beans,” my mom would say. I’d be stationed at the picnic table on the patio, trimming and slicing green beans. After the ...

In a world of freezers, coolers, and constant access to electricity, the Amish have managed to maintain their traditional way of preserving meat without modern refrigeration. Their techniques, honed ...

During the last event of a three part series about sustainability, Delilah Seaman ’26 taught participants how to prepare and preserve different vegetables using pickle jars as a way to be more ...

A canner full of the author’s homemade jerky. We live in a truly blessed country with all of the most modern conveniences on demand at our very fingertips. Our ancestors would have killed to have hot ...

During unexpected emergencies, access to refrigeration can vanish without warning, leaving meat at risk of spoiling within hours. Cold smoking has been used for centuries to keep meat safe for longer ...