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Store Your Food
Let nature keep your food cool. In the old days people relied on pantries and root cellars to help keep produce and other provisions fresh. Ice boxes made way for refrigerators, which are obviously much more convenient, but somehow the use of cool pantries and root cellars also fell by the wayside. This is too bad because these spaces havefunctions that a refrigerator simply can't
replace. Root cellars can store large quantities of produce from the time of harvest until the next summer. Cool pantries can store some produce, but also all manner of other foodstuffs and kitchen supplies can be kept there. Cool, dry storage is the best way to preserve most food. The cool of the earth can keep a totally bermed pantry or root cellar cool; the night air can also be used to cool a storage room. The convenience and security of having ample provisions at your fingertips can not be beat.
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All About Wine Cellars by Howard G. Goldberg, 2004. As more people come to appreciate the wisdom of buying wine by the case, they're contemplating the installation of a home wine cellar to store and protect their vinous investments, whether they live in a one-bedroom apartment or a house with room to spare. This concise, helpful book by respected New York Times wine writer Howard G. Goldberg offers basic guidance on planning, organizing, and maintaining a wine collection, with tips on how to choose the right storage system, create the proper climatic environment, and keep track of what's there and when it's ready to drink. Goldberg also presents a fascinating history of wine collecting, with wonderfully entertaining stories of some famous cellars.
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables by Mike and Nancy Bubel, 1991. Root cellaring is a way of using the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature to store perishable fruits and vegetables. Root Cellaring will tell you: how to choose vegetable and fruit varieties that will store best, specific individual storage requirements for nearly 100 home garden crops, and how to use root cellars in the country, in the city, and in any environment, how to build root cellars, indoors and out, big and small, plain and fancy. There are reports on the root cellaring techniques and experiences of many households all over North America. Though it's often thought of as an adjunct to a large garden, a root cellar can in fact considerably stretch the resources of a small garden, making it easy to grow late succession crops for storage instead of many rows for canning and freezing. Best of all, root cellars can easily fit anywhere. Not everyone can live in the country, but everyone can benefit from natural cold storage. |
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Build Your Own Underground Root Cellar Describes the right location, tools, and materials needed. Includes detailed drawings on building the cellar, adapting the cellar to your needs, root cellar maintenance and getting the most from your root cellar. Gives storage requirements of individual fruits and vegetables.
Home Food Dehydrating: Economical "Do-It-Yourself" Methods for Preserving, Storing & Cooking by Jay Bills, Shirley Bills, 1999. This valuable book presents the basic principles of the dehydrating art with clarity, and provides many useful tips and dozens of delicious recipes for all types of meals. After explaining the nutritional aspects of dehydrating foods, dehydration methods and basic techniques are examined in detail by the authors. The use of preservatives is considered in simple terms. Explanations are then given about how to dehydrate various types of foods. Chapters are devoted to dehydrating fruit and making fruit leather. Other chapters tell how to dehydrate vegetables, herbs, and meats. Methods for storing the food after it has been dehydrated are also given. |
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Keeping
the Harvest: Home Storage of Vegetables and Fruits
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Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques & Recipes by Claude Aubert, 1999
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Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis
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The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying, and Canning
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Where's the Wheat?: Food Storage Your Family Will Eat
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Food Storage for the Clueless
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tribwatch.com excellent article on root cellars. tribwatch.com extensive article about root cellars |
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