The appeal of fresh, homemade food has preservers, canners and home cooks flocking to the kitchen. Liana Krissoff's Canning for a New Generation: Updated and Expanded Edition is a hip, modern handbook chock-full of gorgeous flavour pairings and smart recipes, plus instruction in the finer points of "what to can when." This edition includes 25 percent new content, featuring recipes for canning, drying, preserving and freezing food, as well as ideas for how to use many of the preserves in everyday meals. Matched to the seasons, Krissoff's reci pes illustrate how best to use fresh produce at the height of its availability plus great techniques for intensifying flavours. Special diet concerns are also taken into account with recipe options for using less sugar and skipping commercial pectin. Krissoff includes old-style fermenting recipes, new freezing techniques and tips on preparing small-batch refrigerator pickles and jams. From chowchow to blueberry-maple jam, from plum mostarda to sweet-and-spicy pickled ramps, this cookbook is an essential reference and a truly modern take on a great tradition.