Cooking | Food

Achieve short-term food storage without a refrigerator. Save space in the icebox and learn about foods not to refrigerate.The refrigerator is a recent invention, but in its relatively short residence in the modern kitchen, we’ve made it the primary centerpiece of food storage. Everything from soup to nuts is funneled onto its chilly shelves for what we believe is “safe” short-term stasis.This wasn’t always the case. For thousands of years, folks knew how to store fresh food in creative and basic ways that didn’t require electricity. The seemingly benign presence of the modern refrigerator, however, quickly created a mass erasure of traditional wisdom, and now we don’t know anything but electric refrigeration. Without that foundational understanding of short-term food storage, many of us just indiscriminately place everything in the refrigerator, running high on energy usage and low on space.I used to live that way. But when my husband and I…
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