Member Reviews: Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques & Recipes

I am not sure exactly when it started, but sometime during the late 1940's or 1950's people stopped preserving their own foods and started relying more on the processed foods found in the Supermarkets.  There were lots of reasons for this.  As people moved to suburbia and women entered the work force there was less time and space for home gardens and thus the need for preserving one's own harvest.  Add to this, the fact that modern shipping provided people with produce, dairy, and meats year round, preserving foods no longer became a necessity.  Besides, with large companies turning out all sorts of canned and frozen goods, why waste the time and energy, especially when there were so many...