This week’s photo of the week was shared by Cafe Mama — an adorable behind the scenes look at her Can-a-Rama participation. Check out more pictures of her canning festivities in southeast Portland here. Thanks again for your ongoing contribution to the CAA Flickr Pool, Cafe Mama! Don’t forget, if you’d like to participate, please [...]
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Savoring Summer With Strawberries
A fresh strawberry is one of life’s great delights. Icons of summer, these luscious red jewels of nature inspire our senses with their perfumed and sweet flavor. Canning lets us capture the bounty of this delicate and perishable fruit so we can enjoy it all year long. Strawberry jam, for example, is a staple of [...]
Secret Garden Bookshop Loves Canning
Last week, my daughter and I went to one of our favorite bookstores to get some books to tide us over on the 4th of July weekend–and we were met with this happy sight: The folks at the Secret Garden Bookshop in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle are canning aficionados!
National Pickle Day, November 14, 2009
Hey folks! It’s National Pickle Day! A day devoted to pickling is designed for preserving folks like us. It’s the perfect time to make pickles, eat pickles, or decide what homemade pickled items we want to give as a gifts. Almost anything can be pickled. A pickle is: “An edible product, such as a cucumber, [...]
The Canvolution on Film
A few weeks ago, Seattle chef and veteran canner Diane LaVonne, of Diane’s Market Kitchen, shared her tips on the basics of canning. Videographer Len Davis captured the evening on film on location at the kitchen of AllRecipes.com: Check it out!
CAA is in DailyCandy today
Daily Candy readers, as well as everyone visiting for the first time… Welcome to Canning Across America– your one-stop resource for events, recipes, inspiration and safety how-to on anything under the canning, preserving and pickling umbrella. We’re delighted to be included in Daily Candy Seattle today with Renee Erickson of Boat Street Pickles & Boat [...]
Let’s Chat About Canning!
Canning, pickling and preserving are on this week’s live chat menu at Culinate, hosted by CAA co-founder Kim O’Donnel. Kim’s special guest is canning expert Eugenia Bone, author of Well-Preserved (Clarkson Potter) and a blog with the same name at The Denver Post. Join us Thursday, Aug. 20, 10 a.m. PT/ 1 ET. P.S. We [...]
Welcome!
Welcome to the Canning Across America web site! Canning Across America is a grassroots-inspired nationwide event that honors the revival of the time-honored art of canning. Throughout the country, households will join each other the weekend of August 29/30, 2009 to preserve the summer’s bounty. In addition to home canning parties, chefs and food-preservation experts [...]
The Can-volution Will Not Be Televised!
Here we go, folks. Let this be the first post of many, a place where canning and preserving aficionados gather together and bring back the lost art of “putting up” food. More to come! Yours, Kim O’Donnel
