For thousands of years, humans have relied on creative methods to preserve food in the face of harsh environments and limited ...

If you’re a spooky season lover, you might be itching to fill your home with little DIY Halloween decorations, or maybe you’re more the giant yard skeleton type. But there’s one piece of classic decor ...

My nightly dinner partner and I have no trouble finishing a bottle of wine, but sometimes I have to dine alone. I still want my half bottle, or a little less or a little more, but that creates the ...

It’s peak season for fruits and vegetables from now through September: peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, peaches, apricots, plums, berries — the list goes on and on. It’s not unusual for a neighbor to ...

Great question Richard. Meat preservation is a skill area that gets into what I call the realm of Bushcraft. These are the long-term skills of living with the land that go beyond mere survival. To ...

It could be argued that the world’s cuisines owe a lot to the long history of food preservation — the ingenious and unexpected ways to prolong the lifespan of food that have allowed humans not only to ...

John Durant really likes meat, but he does not keep much of it in his refrigerator—there is not enough room. Instead he stores his meat in a large white freezer chest in his shared Manhattan apartment ...