Amazon.com Review
Oded Schwartz turns the illustrated format favored by publisher Dorling Kindersley into a lush seduction in this book. Nearly every page offers pictures of glorious jams and jellies, fruit butters, chutneys, pickles, preserved meats, smoked fish, and sausages that make your mouth water. Schwartz's vivid descriptions of the more than 150 recipes are as alluring as the stunning photos. Recipe directions are easy to follow and Schwartz gives technical advice to help ensure that successful, safe preserving is clear and simple. He also includes valuable guidance on selecting ingredients along with a brief but interesting historical and ethnic background of preserving food.
Product Description
Learn all the professional techniques, and use all the correct equipment to make perfect jams, mustards, oils, vinegars, and syrups.
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Preserving
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: DK ADULT; 1996-11-01
- Label: DK ADULT
- Studio: DK ADULT
- ISBN: 0789410532
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 11 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #659548
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Summary: Wonderful 2008-04-19
Comment: I've made several recipes in this book, things I never thought I could do, and they've all turned out quite nicely. The instructions are clear and the sidebars are interesting.
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Summary: Great for beginner and experienced canners 2007-01-04
Comment: The illustrations help those who neither paid attention nor saw their mother or grandmother can or preserve. The tips are very helpful. The recipes [so far] are very gourmet.
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Summary: beautiful 2006-02-25
Comment: Beautiful book with lovely recipes and stunning photos - as satisfying to read as it is to make the recipes.
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Summary: I Rushed To Buy This Book 2004-07-02
Comment: Like the previous reviewer, I first met this book in the library and searched all over for my own copy. I've rarely encountered a food book so beautiful and yet so useful. Every step in every conceivable process of preserving food is illustrated in sumptuous color. The color detail helps when you take on a complicated project like curing your own ham or smoking your own fish. I suppose you don't need such detail when you make pate, but the photography here is nearly as good as the real thing. Filled with nuts and bolts, the book at the same time qualifies as a mainstream coffee table book. I use it both ways.Food writer Elliot Essman's other reviews and food articles are available at www.stylegourmet.com
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Summary: A great introduction and a very useful reference book 2003-07-06
Comment: I got this from the library and loved it so much I had to buy it for myself. That was hard, since it was out of print at the time, but I found a used copy. It's chock full of pictures and could even be considered a coffee table book, but this volume is long on information as well. I'm no expert on canning, drying, preserving, pickling, etc., but it seems to me that Schwartz covers all the bases here. I haven't delved as fully into the whole preserving world yet as much as I would like to, but my earliest efforts at pickling and preservng has been made much easier by this handy volume. My problem is that my garden isn't big enough to produce goodies and faster than I can eat them, but I'm hoping that this will change in the future. Seriously, this is a great book.
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