Food Drying With An Attitude

A fun and fabulous guide to creating snacks, meals, and crafts. This ultimate food drying resource has something for everyone: vegetarians, natural and raw food enthusiasts, hunters, fishermen, gourmet cooks, gardeners, farmers, and hikers. With more than thirty years of food drying experience, Mary T. Bell offers straightforward and practical instructions for drying everything from bananas to mushrooms to blue cheese, without ignoring traditional favorites such as jerky, apples and tomatoes. Mary Bell also offers nutritional tips and delicious recipes for cooking and baking with dried foods. She even includes recipes to make animal treats for birds, dogs and cats. This book also includes descriptions of how various food dehydrators work to give readers a better understanding of the tools of the craft.