Category Archives: Books and blogs

Win Canning Jars, Lids, and The Joy of Jams!

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Today marks the start of a contest for a set of gifts from Fillmore Container: a dozen  straight-sided, slightly tapered, unembossed half-pint jelly jars; a dozen one-piece caps in the winner’s choice of color; and a copy of The Joy of … Continue reading →

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Experiments with Tibicos (Water Kefir)

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

When my friend Rose Marie first asked me what I knew about water kefir, I was baffled. Water kefir, she explained, was a culture for a bubbly beverage made from water, not milk, in the form of “grains” that resemble … Continue reading →

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Un Blog Affidabile

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

The most enjoyable part of keeping a WordPress blog, to my mind, is checking your blog’s statistics to see where in the world your most recent readers live. Although many of my international readers probably lack enough facility with English … Continue reading →

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For Me? The Liebster Blog Award

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Thanks to Jane Collins, who writes the blog Preserving the Harvest, I’ve just won the Liebster Blog Award, which is given by one blogger to another for excellent, beautiful, humorous, or sparkling work. Although the origins of this award are … Continue reading →

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The Canning and Preserving Handbook

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Although Amazon identifies me as the author of this book, I’m really just the editor. The Canning and Preserving Handbook is the latest edition of the USDA’s classic Complete Guide to Home Canning, edited for clarity and consistency. The book opens with … Continue reading →

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The Modern Hunter-Gatherer

Posted on February 11, 2011 by

“There is a saving streak of the primitive in all of us,” wrote Euell Gibbons, who introduced the art of foraging to the citified masses in the 1960s and 1970s. Hunting was as popular a sport then as now, but … Continue reading →

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