Is Canning the New Knitting?

Aug. 16, 2011 - PRLog -- Is Canning the New Knitting?

Red Rock Press announces the publication of The Best Little Book of Preserves & Pickles---the superlative absolutely intended.  There is no better guide to saving the flavors of late summer and fall.

In this charming handbook, three-time James Beard cookbook award winner Judith Choate distills and updates the best recipes she has encountered and developed during a lifetime of canning and cooking for both country tables and urbane eateries.  

There are no difficult, fussy recipes in this collection catering to those with an appreciation of fine combinations of tastes.  As it says on the cover of The Best Little Book of Preserves & Pickles, this cookbook is about: “Easy jams & jellies, chutneys & condiments, sauces, spreads & syrups.”

While Red Rock Press editors and designers were readying this extraordinary collection for print, they heard more than once, “Canning is the new knitting!”

Community colleges and cooking schools across the country cannot offer enough canning courses for all the first-timers who want to give it a whirl.

If you appreciate yummy, novel spins on favorite preserves or sauces, this book is for you.  It’s also a great gift for the great-aunt who has rediscovered her kitchen or the young friend who finally has a pot or two to call his own.
 
Twenty-five years ago, Judith Choate produced a version of this book that sold 100,000 copies.  The distinguished Mrs. Choate has more than revived her own classic. She has added to it, refined it and updated it for hands-on 21st-century diners who like the very best.  Check out www.preservesandpickles.com to learn more.

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Daniel Kleinman
Red Rock Press

New York, New York
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Telluride, Colorado