We use strawberry jam as an example to explore the underlying principles of water activity, a key technique for food preservation. For those of us in northern climates, strawberries are the first ...

Range through the jam shelves of your local fancy-food shop (or your own pantry), and you'll find a lot of fancy-pants jam. You know the kind I mean: the ones with four fruits and three spices and a ...

A dollop of sweet strawberry preserves is like summer in the mouth. Lathered on toast, spooned on ice cream or slathered on a PBJ, it’s magic. Perfect strawberry jam, spreads or preserves capture the ...

In this week’s Chef Chat, we heard from Chef Kelly Fletcher of House of Tricks. Fletcher says another one of his most valuable tools is his iPhone, which stores hundreds of his recipes. We were lucky ...

This recipe requires little more than spreading fruit preserves on a rolled-out sheet of puff, rolling it up, slicing, and baking. The oven's heat does most of the heavy lifting, transforming these ...

Strawberries don’t wait for you to find them. They beckon. Their botanical name, Fragaria, means fragrance, and it’s their sudden perfume in farmers markets, stall after stall, that signals the start ...

Peanut butter may get all of the love and attention when it comes to America’s most treasured foods (I’ve already ranked my favorites here), but its fruity BFF is just as deserving of fanfare. After ...

See what happens when we try to make a strawberry last forever. You’ve heard of the epoxy hot dog, but how about the epoxy strawberry? On this week’s episode we’re going to try to make a strawberry ...

Just days after the Duchess of Sussex teased her lifestyle brand by sending numbered pots of her strawberry jam to fifty of her closest influencers, Buckingham Palace’s official store has come up with ...

A dollop of sweet strawberry preserves is like summer in the mouth. Lathered on toast, spooned on ice cream or slathered on a PBJ, it’s magic. Perfect strawberry jam, spreads or preserves capture the ...