Knee deep in the canning and preserving cookbook trend, do most of us really need Saving the Season: A Cook's Guide to Home Canning, Pickling, and Preserving by local author Kevin West? Maybe not, if ...

Q: We had a recipe for prune ketchup when I was a young boy. It goes great with venison. Would anyone have a great recipe? — Jim Statler, Yakima, Wash. A: Yes, indeed. Grant Achatz, the star chef of ...

The recipes here are not all for canned goods; you can keep these goodies in your refrigerator as well. I didn't can chef Chris Montero's ketchup because it's disappearing so quickly at my house. It ...

First published July 21, 2009: Anyone who knows how addictive home canning is will understand the dilemma of having too many jars of jams, jellies and other fruit spreads accumulating at the end of ...