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It’s Christmas Eve! After a relaxed morning here in Cambridge, I got in the mood to make some jam. After trying a range of non-traditional jam fruits, I deci...

The following recipe is reprinted from Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It, by Karen Solomon.

The summer that I first discovered home preserving, no produce was safe. There was something so gratifying about containing brightly colored fruits and...

I packed my suitcase last month full of clothes I haven’t needed in Austin, TX since February. In between all the layers Pacific Northwesterners told me to p...

I arrived at the food preservation reservation on a very slow train and my first stop was strawberry jam sealed with paraffin wax. There’s an irrepressible me...

Last year putting up fruit became a mission for me. It was my second year of canning. Using a palate of flavors to mix apricots, cherries, and peaches

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