For thousands of years, humans have relied on creative methods to preserve food in the face of harsh environments and limited ...

My nightly dinner partner and I have no trouble finishing a bottle of wine, but sometimes I have to dine alone. I still want my half bottle, or a little less or a little more, but that creates the ...

It’s peak season for fruits and vegetables from now through September: peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, peaches, apricots, plums, berries — the list goes on and on. It’s not unusual for a neighbor to ...

John Durant really likes meat, but he does not keep much of it in his refrigerator—there is not enough room. Instead he stores his meat in a large white freezer chest in his shared Manhattan apartment ...

Great question Richard. Meat preservation is a skill area that gets into what I call the realm of Bushcraft. These are the long-term skills of living with the land that go beyond mere survival. To ...

It could be argued that the world’s cuisines owe a lot to the long history of food preservation — the ingenious and unexpected ways to prolong the lifespan of food that have allowed humans not only to ...