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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...

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...

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...

Concerns about commercial pet food have pushed a lot of owners toward cooking for their pets themselves — done right, a home-cooked diet can be a genuinely healthier option. The challenge has always been storage: fresh homemade pet food doesn't...

By Lisa Barker, Guest Blogger When I first began playing with my freeze dryer and experimenting with different foods, my excitement to be able to freeze dry in my own kitchen was . . . extreme, to say the least....