Food Preservation
Let’s face it – man has been “processing” food from the first time meat was cooked over a fire or added salt to preserve to eat later without it spoiling as rapidly. Processing used to simply be used to preserve food for consumption beyond a product’s normal shelf life or place where it was grown. I still have the documents my grandparents filled out in the 1940’s that calculated how many quarts of fruit preserves, vegetables, jams, jellies, bushels of…