The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook - by Chelsea J O'Leary Hardcover

About the Book

"Chelsea J. O'Leary focuses equally on seasonal recipes and the foundational knowledge required to preserve food with sharp intuition and holistic understanding. No matter where you live--a downtown high-rise, suburban bungalow, or countryside ranch--these recipes are for you. In fact, most recipes can be created using produce picked up from any local farmers' market. As you use this cookbook, you will become a steward of your local land, farms, and home."--

Book Synopsis

LOCAL. LASTING. DELICIOUS.

The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook is a guide to home food preservation rooted in seasonality, education, and family.

Chelsea J. O'Leary focuses equally on seasonal recipes and the foundational knowledge required to preserve food with sharp intuition and holistic understanding. No matter where you live--a downtown high-rise, suburban bungalow, or countryside ranch--these recipes are for you. In fact, most recipes can be created using produce picked up from any local farmers' market.

As you use this cookbook, you will become a steward of your local land, farms, and home.

INSIDE YOU'LL FIND:

• A case for why home food preservation matters today more than ever
• 45 seasonal canning, pickling, preserving, and freezing recipes
• Tips and tricks to create an intuitive and efficient workflow in your kitchen
• The history, science, and safety of home food preservation
• Resources to further expand your personal preserving practice

Review Quotes

"Chelsea offers a wonderfully refreshing perspective on food preservation fueled by familial wisdom, mindfulness, and a passion for reminding us that preserving can teach us how to live. With her first book, Chelsea teaches us how to capture sunshine in a jar."
--Chef Sean Brock, Author of Heritage and South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

"Unlike the classic canning books I own and love, O'Leary's new book takes apartment-dwellers, small families and non-homesteaders into consideration. Photos feature four lemons or a bowl of green beans, not enough produce to fill an SUV....In addition to her grandmother, O'Leary's got some other high-profile supporters. The book includes a foreword by Caroline Randall Williams as well as recipes in collaboration with Laura Lea Bryant and Sean Brock. The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook includes tips on efficient workflow, especially if you don't have a giant kitchen. And of course no book on canning would be complete without a section on safety of home food preservation..."
--Margaret Littman, Nashville Scene

About the Author

Chelsea J. O'Leary is a Nashville-based artist, entrepreneur, and home food preserver. She is the founder and owner of Wiley Canning Company, a company dedicated to canning, pickling, and preserving local and seasonal fruits and vegetables. Chelsea creates recipes and hosts workshops to teach others to can, pickle, and preserve as well. She explores photography through both a film and digital format, and she is especially drawn to photographing fruits and vegetables. When she is not canning, pickling, preserving, or creating photographs, she values and seeks meaningful, curiosity-driven dialogue with others. She loves to write and run, in the woods or through the city, and she cherishes time spent with her husband, Jared, and son, Sullivan. You might find them at a local farmers' market, park, or nearby wooded trail.