1 – 2 – 3 – Sauerkraut!

  I’m still planning on writing more about preserving food by canning, but I’m so excited about my fresh batch of sauerkraut right now, I thought I would highlight that first.  Preserving by lacto-fermentation, it turns out, is extraordinarily easy!  I’m hoping to try cucumber pickles by this method later in the summer.  Maybe kimchi [...]

Food preservation: Reviving a lost art (Part 1 of 2)

The following magazine clipping hung on the door of our kitchen cabinet at the apprentice house all season. The caption reads, “In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal administration assigned photographer Dorothea Lange to travel around Oregon documenting agricultural communities at the height of the Great Depression.   Here we see Mrs. Botner of Nyssa Heights in [...]