German

A. country where Sauerkraut has been fermented since before Rome, James Cook took barrels of it to sea in 1768, the Black Forest Schinken received PGI protection in 1997, and the Spreewald gherkin works the canal on a barge from August to first frost. We pulled together every preserve worth knowing — eight crocks, deep — from the canners, smokers, fermenters, and curers who keep the year.

German sits under Preserve in the HowTo Food menu. It has 8 sections: Canning, Fermentation, Pickling, Curing, Smoking, Drying, Jam Making and Freezing.