What do beer, cheese, yogurt, sauerkraut, miso, jam, even chocolate I ll bet you didn t know have in common? They are all preserved foods. Artisanal canned tomatoes and homemade kimchee might be trendy items now, but they come from a culinary need as old as human civilization itself. Can It celebrates those transformed and transforming foods that have done so much to create the diversity of cuisines found around the world, bringing readers on a tangy adventure of all the ways necessity has bred deliciousness.
Food preservation rests in a simple problem: food tends to come in...