Section 04 of 06 · 4 guides

Seasons

What the year gives you and how it is kept. Every entry says what the technique or the dish is FOR before it says how it is done, and where households disagree it says so.

A baker sliding loaves into an oven — FIG. 01Loaves go in by hand and come out by colour; the baker reads the crust rather than the clock.

4.1
Preserving before refrigeration

Salt, fat, sugar, acid and smoke — five ways to stop time, each leaving its mark.
4.2
Early vegetables

The short window when things are worth eating plain.
4.3
Roots and the cellar

What keeps, how cold it wants to be, and what ruins a whole box.
4.4
The glut

Every garden produces too much of one thing at once. That is where the recipes came from.

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Seasons

Preserving before refrigeration

Early vegetables

Roots and the cellar

The glut