Food History

The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances

by Nicolas Appert

Nicolas Appert, a Paris confectioner, found that food sealed in glass bottles and heated in boiling water would keep for years, and in 1810 the French government gave him a prize for publishing how. He did not know why it worked; that had to wait for Pasteur. This is the English translation of his second edition.

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Reading time

About 1 hr 35 min

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #52551. In the public domain in the United States.