Capturing garden vegetables at their best for year-round enjoyment.

Pickling is one of the oldest and most inexpensive methods of preserving foods. Families would gather over mounds of vegetables and huge steaming pots, producing savory and delicious pickles and chutneys. Home pickling is now enjoying a resurgence, as the cost of food and the desire to know where and how foods are prepared increases.

These wonderfully inventive recipes feature modern methods and equipment in accordance with the latest food-safety standards. The book also includes classic and unusual...

With sous vide cooking, you'll be able to achieve restaurant-quality results with little effort and none of cooking's usual guesswork. There are so many uses for the sous vide, well beyond steak (although steak and sous vide are a match made in culinary heaven), and it's not just for experienced cooks. Jay and Jennifer provide all of the how-tos and whys, and in no time at all, you'll be creating perfectly cooked sous vide meals that just might have your family and friends calling you Chef.

You can cook sous vide at home for everyday meals, in your RV, on a boat or at a cottage -...