Food Storage as Grandma Knew It

WINTER STASH Harriet Fasenfest, a backyard gardener, stores produce in a shed and at the base of her cellar stairs, above.

By MICHAEL TORTORELLO
New York Times: November 5, 2008

IN a strictly technical sense, Cynthia Worley is not transforming her basement into a time machine. Yet what’s going on this harvest season beneath her Harlem brownstone on 122nd Street, at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, is surely something out of the past — or perhaps the future ...

... According to a September survey on consumer anxieties over higher fuel and food prices from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University in Ames, 34 percent of respondents said that they were likely to raise more of their own vegetables. Another 37 percent said they were likely to can or freeze more of their food. The cousin to canning and freezing is the root cellar.
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