avor of freshly-picked seasonal fruit and vegetables to enjoy all year round?

Combining their experience as cooks, caterers and foragers, three friends bring you the essential guide to preserving. With techniques and recipes handed down through the generations plus deliciously inventive recipes from their own kitchens, you'll soon learn:

• Basic principles and methods of preserving
• Equipment and ingredients
you need to get started
• Best preserving agents to use: sugar, vinegar, alcohol, oil, and salt
• Over 80 stunning recipes from Green Tomato Chutney to Strawberry Gin Fizz

Let the slow art of preserving become your new favorite pastime - and delight in having nature's most vibrant flavors and colors in your kitchen.