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A Necessity In Old Days
From necessity early Americans preserved food by drying salting and pickling. Appert invented canning around 1800. Pasteur linked microbes to spoilage. Modern methods include canning, refrigeration and drying with advances such as freeze-drying and preservatives. Carroll notes vast gains and future discoveries ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Humphries
NCSU
Raleigh
Nicholas Appert
Appert
Napoleon
Louis Pasteur
America
Daniel E. Carroll Jr
Agricultural Experiment Station
North Carolina State University
Carroll
United States