Customer Review: My husband and I are both enjoying this book, and getting a lot of useful information from it. We're looking forward to building our new home so that we can build our own root cellar. This book will come in very handy.
Customer Review: This book is great for beginners or those with little experience in canning - especially pressure canning. Lots of recipes and instructions though a little higher-priced than I would have thought. For the experienced canner there is little in this book that you can't find online with a... more info
Customer Review: Lots of great recipes and practical advice for making fermented foods work in your kitchen.
Any mentions to his orientation and living situation are made in passing and do not make much difference to the book. If he had thanked his wife and kids instead, nobody would have noticed.
Customer Review: I am glad I chose this book on the basis of previous high reviews. I can only concur: this is an outstanding book that explains the craft of preserving meats from start to finish, as well as the whys and hows. I am not a novice, but an "advanced" preserver and smoker, having made my own sausages and... more info
Customer Review: This is the best book that I have read in years. If you are into preparedness and food presevation then this is the book for you. It is chalked full of great nutritional information
Andrea W.
Washington State
Customer Review: I needed to get more information on how to dehydrate foods, what foods were good to dehydrate and then how do I use them later in a recipe. This book covers all that and I am looking forward to using it very often as my resource.
Customer Review: This is a very helpful book. Bought mine a long time ago, and this purchase is for my sister who is not interested in putting foods up.
Very informative and accurate material!
Customer Review: this has got to be the best! i've always heard that it was referred as the canners bible, and people sure weren't kidding! there are recipes for grape jam/jelly that you can make out of grape juice! so much information!
Customer Review: I am a beginner and this book is fabulous. you can't go wrong. it tells you eveything you need to know and then some. love it - deb bouchard