Explains how the development of food preservation techniques changed world history.

For over a century, and across five generations, the Veitch family pioneered the introduction of hundreds of new plants into gardens, conservatories and houses

Condensed milk : the development of the early canning industry -- Growing a better pea : canners, farmers, and agricultural scientists in the 1910s and 1920s --

Fascinating ... to be eagerly devoured’ Clarissa Dickson-Wright Most people today, if they have heard of her, associate Constance Spry with the cookery book b