Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning offers more than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients. It is an essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world. Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet, here is a book that goes back to the future, celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition by traditional techniques using salt, oil, sugar, alcohol, vinegar, drying, cold storage and lactic fermentation. This book, with a new foreword by Deborah Madison, deliberately ignores freezing and high-temperature canning in favor of methods that are superior because they are less costly and more energy-efficient. Soft cover, 6"x 9", 197 pages, black and white illustrations. To order by phone call Toll Free 866-596-9982