What's Cooking with Canning, Pickling, and Freezing with Irma Harding

Preserving your own food is a fundamental part of a healthy lifestyle. Canning and pickling is a way of doing this. Not only do you source produce from your garden, farmer s market, or local shop, you can also ensure the preparation is wholesome and the ingredients are pure.

In this detailed guide, 1950s icon Irma Harding offers her firm guidance on how to properly prepare and preserve your own foods.

Canning, Pickling, and Freezing with Irma Harding

Recipes to Preserve Food, Family and the American Way

by Marilyn McCray and Michael Perry

Octane Press, 2014

Homemade Pickles
Outrider Reading Group
How to Make Jams and Jellies
Cookbooks
Book Store

Food in America's Environmental History

Staking out American 'food history' is a promising way to change perceptions about the place and importance of the 'environment' in American history.  Food connects to the mainstream of 'American history,' and puts standard narratives in a new light: think of food and native America; establishing colonial societies; protests over tea and trade relations swirling through the American Revolution in the economic and political context of an Atlantic world; slaves growing rice and tobacco and the role of food in fighting the Civil War; the long westward conquest and the wholesale reordering of landscapes to support both a new regime of property and food production; immigration, foodways, identity, ethnicity and America as a Melting Pot; progressivism, home economics, and food reform; industrialization and corporate capitalism from Swift to Sunkist and Monsanto; the rise of tourism and consumer culture - especially consumer culture.

excerpted from:

A Companion to American Environmental History

Douglas Cazaux Sackman (Editor)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Outrider Reading Group
The Nature Pages
Nature Writing and Natural Histories
History and American West Titles