Pickled, Potted, and Canned
Subtitle: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: June 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780743255530
Subjects: Food Engineering; Cooking; Cooking / Wine; Methods - Canning & Preserving; History; Cooking / Canning & Preserving; Food Science
First sentence: LONG BEFORE THE IMMIGRANT SETTLERS and gold hunters had started to fill the American West in the mid-nineteenth century, mountain men-backwoodsmen, trappers, hunters, explorers, and adventurers-were living their own very singular lives in the old Northwest.