The many ways of food preservation & processing.

From: Economic Review | Date: August 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Since the beginning of time, people have looked for ways to preserve food. They have looked for ways to store food for the long winter. They have looked for ways to save food gathered in times of plenty so that it could be used when food was scarce.

Of course, we have no records of how or when the first discoveries about food preservation were made. Perhaps hungry hunters ate berries that had dried on a bush or dried-up grapes f rom a grapevine. They liked the taste of the berries and took some home. Later, people learned how to dry the fresh berries and grapes by spreading ...

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