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Pickles to Relish

by Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker

Book Description

Pickles to Relish is more than just a cookbook. It provides information on food preservation for the homemaker, professional chef, food scientist, food historian, and backyard-grill master in everyone. Various types of food-preservation techniques, or methods, such as fermentation, curing, pickling, freezing, refrigeration, and canning, are discussed, along with related information from allied fields of knowledge.

Food preservation has greatly impacted security and human survival. This reference book teaches people to thrive through concepts of cooking, chemistry, history, horticulture, and art. Full of techniques, tips, and enthusiasm for pickling, recipes include a variety of chutneys and sauces as well as pickles and relish. Food preservation has greatly impacted security and human survival. This reference provides various techniques of food preservation and how they have impacted, and continue to impact, human survival, security, and advancement.

About the Author
Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld has a B.A. and M.F.A. in art and an M.A. in theoretical design. Raised in a commercial-nursery/greenhouse family, she has completed the school of instruction in food processing prescribed by the Food and Drug Administration and has completed advanced coursework in the fields of education, administration, and school law.