The same caveat applies to any communication you may have with any person in rec.food.preserving or for that matter by e-mail. Charter, about Rec. I have a refrigerator and live near 5 supermarkets. Current food preservation techniques that rightly should be discussed in this forum include canning, freezing, dehydration, pickling, smoking, salting, distilling, and potting. The newsgroup rec.food.preserving was created in August 1994.
Discussions tend to be seasonal, following the Northern Hemisphere growing season.