It’s true. Home canning is everywhere. Like gardening and raising chickens, it’s gone urban, attained trend status. Manhattanites are penning canning cookbooks aimed at apartment dwellers while some serious canning nerds are blogging all about it. Over the past year it’s gone from a low rumble to a thunderous clang. Suddenly the C word’s become a bona fide media buzz word.
Check out a few mentions of canning from the past year or so in mainstream media outlets (wait, is Salon mainstream, or is it still considered alternative?):
* London’s Guardian newspaper on canning rhubarb (nice opening image of a wren and a crack pipe).
* Time magazine on those bearded, tattooed pickle-making Brooklyn hipsters.
Once the canning bug gets in you, it’s pretty hard to shake. This is really embarrasing, but… I’ve even been dreaming about it (rows of colourful, gleaming jars floating in a funhouse mirror version of my kitchen). OK, I’m going to go off and pretend I didn’t admit that now.
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Canning craze has extended to the far-reaches of Melbourne, Australia. Yesterday I put the lid on my first beautiful jar of preserved lemons…an amalgamation of Claudia Roden and Australia’s own Stephanie Alexander. Next I’m on to Tomato Relish…
Hey! Amazing. So easy, right? And so very pretty to look at. I actually also peeped Stephanie Alexander’s version before making mine too. Love that dame.
You’re not alone. I started canning last summer in earnest, and while I said I wasn’t going to do it as much this year, the bug is firmly in place and I did not only as much as I did last summer but MORE. I think once you’ve done it, it gets easier and easier. And all of this fresh produce? I can’t imagine winter without my favorite chili sauce. Or toast in February without strawberry freezer jam.
You’re not alone.
Hey Lelo.
Exactly. It gets easier and it just snowballs, then you find your self making jams and pickles until 2 a.m. … I’m a night owl. Gotta curb my enthusiasm sometimes. It’s funny where canning comes up too. I was just talking to this cool 20-something guy who works at a local independent bookshop and guess what he did this weekend? Made strawberry jam with his girlfriend. Nice.
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