Posts Tagged ‘canning’

Avery’s Plan to Can

Beer in cans? The very idea used to induce self-satisfied chuckles among beer snobs. How things have changed. The prime mover in the shift was Oskar Blues in Longmont, Colorado, which released Dale's Pale Ale in cans back in 2002, followed by four other brews...and yet another, Gubna, due out in March.  Their success launched [...]

Join the Canning Revolution

Former Washington Post food blogger Kim O'Donnel would like everyone to get a little pickled this weekend. Or canned. Whichever. O'Donnel is the founder of Canning Across America, which, according to its Web site, "is a nationwide, ad hoc collective of cooks, gardeners and food lovers committed to the revival of the lost art of [...]

Learn to Can All Those Summer Tomatoes

If food wastage is a sin — or at least contributes to Third World poverty — then we owe it to ourselves to be better guardians (if that's the right word) of the products we buy and grow. How many fresh summer tomatoes, for instance, have you let rot away on the counter over the [...]