Preserves

A mystic is someone who wants to understand the universe, but is too lazy to study physics. ~ Anonymous I […]

Do you find it difficult to ask for help when you need it? Do you say, “Oh, it doesn’t matter

Now that I’ve had to give up refined sugar, honey seems like nothing less than a miracle. I’ve been thinking

In the three years since I started writing about jam and preserves, this is the longest I’ve gone without posting

If you met a feijoa on the street, how would you say hello? You could greet it in Spanish (fay-ho-ah),

A couple of weeks ago I got an urgent phone message from my mother. She said, “Call me back as

There are some foodie words I can’t say with a straight face. “Foodie” is one of them. Terroir is another.

I’ve been thinking about wild blackberry jam. There’s nothing at all wrong with a basic approach: combining blackberries with sugar

A recipe for simple homemade orange syrup for sodas or drinks, plus three variations: orange mint, orange cardamom, and orange elderflower.

My career as a legal writer and editor has involved reading and analyzing hundreds if not thousands of legal statutes.

Last year, two things came into my life that changed the way I preserve fruit. One was an upright storage

‘ve experimented with several variations on the quince-based marmalade theme and (other than orange) this version using Meyer lemons is by far my favorite.