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Freeze-drying a good herb harvest in the fall means still having real basil, lemon verbena, or whatever else grew well, well into winter — enough to build a dinner party menu around three different pesto varieties instead of rationing one...

A big harvest rarely fits one preservation method. Some crops freeze-dry beautifully and lose almost nothing in the process; others are actually better off in a cold cellar or a cool pantry corner, no machine required. Sorting that out ahead...

Around Valentine's Day, generosity tends to get a little extra attention — and a freeze dryer turns out to be a genuinely practical tool for it, not just a way to stock your own pantry. Hunger Doesn't Always Look Like...

If you've run out of new recipes to try, a good cookbook can do more than a recipe search ever will — the best ones double as a travelogue and a photo essay, and leave you with a stack of...

Salty and crunchy is a hard craving to shake, especially in winter. Freeze-drying vegetables into chip form solves that without the carbs, fat, or calories that come with a bag of regular chips — and a mandolin slicer is worth...

Gardeners without a freeze dryer tend to plant conservatively, worried about overdoing it. With one, that worry mostly disappears — you can plant generously, knowing the surplus won't go to waste. These three vegetables are especially worth growing extra of....

Diets built around restriction rarely last, which is probably why so many New Year's resolutions don't make it past February. Three smaller, more durable changes tend to hold up a lot better — and a freeze dryer makes all three...

Most health professionals agree that crash dieting doesn't work — cutting calories drastically while feeling deprived is a reliable setup for yo-yoing right back to where you started. The thing that actually holds up isn't willpower, it's planning. As the...

Airports are a rough place to eat well — not much good food to begin with, plenty of tempting bad food, no real way to check what's actually in anything, and prices that can run double or triple what the...