Katie caldesi author of the italian cookery course and her husband giancarlo have tempting recipes for merry marmalade and fig and muscat conserve but their preserving goes far beyond jellies and jams curing smoking freezing pickling bottling fermenting drying all these are explained with details of techniques such as how to make your own dustbin smoker and recipes including curry pastes to freeze kefir pickled fish flavoured oils smoked cheeses and even arbroath smokies