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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 ...

The key to salting meat is the process of diffusion: the tendency for substances to disperse through another substance until equilibrium is reached. From the hills of Italy to the Spanish plains, ...

When done correctly, home food preservation can produce a bounty of safe and delicious food. If done incorrectly, it can lead to severe illness. Purdue Extension’s Mastering Home Food Preservation ...

Canning is back in vogue. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, canning and other forms of at-home food preservation were returning to kitchens around the country as a culinary tradition. As the pandemic ...

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 ...

From September to the following spring, Richard Hodge is elbows-deep in ground meat and hog casings, sharing his time-honed knowledge with students of all ages and backgrounds. "People are getting ...

There is no end to the magic of food preservation, and in “Preserving Everything,” Leda Meredith leads readers – both newbies and old hands – in every sort of preservation technique imaginable. Leda ...

Judaism is all about preservation, both literally and figuratively. There’s a reason why some Jewish traditions haven’t been swept away by the tide of history – it’s because there were some dedicated ...