It's really nice to see an article promoting safe home canning and that these folks are holding workshops to educate about proper canning practices. Thought I'd share! This is from Seaforth, Ontario.
Some excerpts:
As one of the few Canadians to be recognized as a Master Food Preserver, Flynn hopes to use his classes to educate people about food safety and dispel persistent food untruths. “There’s a real myth that tomatoes never need to be acidified,” he explained. “When you look at recipes from the 1950s, they were created with the tomatoes available at the time in mind. Today, there are so many varieties of tomatoes that are much lower in acidity, which means they won’t work in those recipes.”
Flynn also feels that Canada is lagging behind in the realm of food preservation education. “We’re in the Wild, Wild West up here… I’m maybe a bit of a cowboy, but I don’t mess around.” He had to travel all the way to Cornell University for his training, after finding that the type of food preservation course he was looking for just wasn’t available in Canada.
by sasunnach