Putting Up: A Year-Round Guide to Canning in the Southern Tradition

In Putting Up, author Steve Dowdney colorfully and descriptively guides readers safely through the home canning process. In his plainspoken narrative, Dowdney explains how to put up crops harvested during each month of the year and includes 65 of the most popular and delicious recipes he produces for his successful canning business. Also included is a resource section that contains information on where all essential canning supplies can be purchased. More than just a how-to manual, Putting Up is a wonderful guide for canners and non-canners alike. It is chock full of anecdotes, stories and vignettes of a long gone agrarian south that filled the author's youth and still fills his heart and memory.

Steve Dowdney is the author of Putting Up: A Year-Round guide to Canning in the Southern Tradition. He owned and operated the premier South Carolina small batch cannery, Rockland Plantation Product. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

Cypress is beautifully illustrated through the rich photography of Rick McKee. Rick also collaborated on Magnolias (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2006). A frequent contributor to national magazines, Rick works out of his studio in historic Charleston, South Carolina.