Preserve us

[emeraldsedai]

Yesterday, Harriet taught me how to make sauerkraut and pickles without fear.

Harriet is the proprietor of Preserve, a school of food preservation that she runs out of her house and garden here in the 'hood. Yesterday's class was Fermentation and Pickling

Comments

[starfishchick]

How totally awesome! (Except for Botulism Lady.)

And you're going to learn to make cheese? EVEN MORE AWESOME. (I read about that in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and really want to try it.)

[emeraldsedai]

That book is very much on my To Read list. I keep hearing about it.

I'm not sure I'll ever really be serious about making cheese. Yogurt, maybe. But it would be cool to know how it's done, and understand that whole world better since, like Wallace and Grommit, I love the stuff.

[starfishchick]

Oh, I loved it, it was one of the top five books I read last year.

[emeraldsedai]

Have you read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan? I've heard that it covers some of the same ground as Animal Vegetable Miracle.

Since Omnivore was one of the very best books I've ever read, more like it would be a good thing!

[starfishchick]

I tried, I couldn't get into it. (I'll try again, and I'm also planning to read his "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto".

But I devoured the Kingsolver, I couldn't put it down!

[emeraldsedai]

Pollan is a journalist and Kingsolver is a novelist, and I've heard that their respective books strongly reflect those different writing roots.

I find Pollan very readable and deeply engaging--also really intellectually honest. If you decide to give him another try, it's a rewarding read. In Defense of Food is a much shorter and more accessible work, and I read it first, but Omnivore just blew me away.

[starfishchick]

Good points! I just could not get into Omnivore when I tried it. (And I had it from the library, so it had to go back.)