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The new can-do spirit

Bloggers spread the gospel about the delights of home canning. And they're not about to put a lid on it.

Kevin West's blog on canning has led to a book deal. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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By Rene Lynch, Los Angeles Times

August 5, 2010

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Canning is having a moment.

So is pickling, preserving, jam making and all around "putting up," as they used to say — and now do once more — of the season's harvest. And if that puts you in mind of a remote farmhouse kitchen, gingham aprons and a cellar lined with rows of apple butter, then you haven't been paying attention.

At Food in Jars, blogger Marisa McClellan makes peach-plum jam from a most unusual perch — the 20th floor of a Philadelphia high-rise — and draws more than 100,000 hits per month. In New York, Tigress in a Jam issues monthly jam challenges that are accepted by fellow bloggers around the globe. In Brooklyn, there's Anarchy in a Jar, a blog-based business dedicated to getting you out of a jam-mergency (i.e., you are in dire need of jam). They deliver their homemade wares on bicycle.
The new can-do spirit of home canning - latimes.com