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(I wrote the following article for the Paper Palate blog, in the Well Fed Network)

I recently had an opportunity to review the cookbook Preserving Memories: Growing Up in My Mother’s Kitchen by Judy Glattstein. As you might imagine from the title, this is a book about the making of jams, jellies, marmalades, and other preserved items. Let me assure you that the work and time you take to make any of these recipes will be very well spent. Homemade preserves, made from the most simple of ingredients, taste fantastic and much more like the original fruit than any mass produced preserve, jam or jelly you could buy.

Although the cover features some very sexy strawberries in hyperreal colors, this is not a book for eye candy. There are no full color photographs, only the occasional sepia, printed like the rest of the text.

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