memories

Do you love fresh food and growing your own produce? Then learning to can is a great way to extend the enjoyment of the peak season into the winter months.

photo by Sara Remington Pickled Yellow Wax Beans with Fresh Dill Recipe from Eating Local: The Cook’s Companion from Land to Table by Sur La Table

There are times in life when things just don't go according to plan. For someone like me, who loves to plan the future, there is really nothing worse than

For me, a woman not more than a minute away from her twenties and raised in a suburban setting, it would have been entirely possible for the concept of canning

Canning is an important part of Amy Pennington’s book, Urban Pantry: Tips & Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonable Kitchen.

I hadn’t canned since 1986, according to records. (My mom, my pickling partner and methodical note-taker, jotted down the last date).

Many of us have fond memories of Blueberries for Sal, the classic Robert McCloskey picture book about a mother and daughter in 1940s Maine who head out one