Did you catch more fish than you can fit in your freezer? Try salt-curing your fish to preserve your catch instead. These days, we tend to freeze food when we want to keep it on hand for a long time.

This simple Salt Cured Pork Tenderloin recipe is a great entry to salt curing meat. Use it to spice up your charcuterie board or grate over pasta or eggs. Because I am the only person in my household ...

Curious how to make your own cured fish at home? Chef Melissa King shares her top tips, and a recipe. (Photos: Alaska Seafood) Cured fish is a popular item at breakfast buffets and brunches across the ...

Ever wonder how that huge, bone-in, Virginia ham can last for a year, swinging from the rafters at room temperature? The biggest reason for this impressive example of food preservation is salt. Salt ...

Salt-cured meat is luxurious: ruby, silky protein, bursting with flavor. It is the perfect thing to feed people around the holidays, because most of the work will have been done a week or two before ...

Curing meat is why humans could stay put when there was nothing to grow, kill or steal. It is how conquerors and discoverers lasted while they traveled the world. But the refrigerator and the modern ...

(Editor’s Note: Methods for water-cured and dry salt cured olives follows this article.) CHICO — Don Landis is the Johnny Appleseed-type folk hero of home-cured olives in Northern California. A jar of ...