Great piece today in Salon by Sarah Karnasiewicz, formerly of Saveur (and Salon too, actually, I think), about the resurgence of home canning, and whether we're all deluding ourselves about homesteading being a logical response to a down economy.

As an avid home canner with a serious and legendary spatial-vision problem (which is what got me into home canning in the first place, as I brought home 15 pounds* of peaches entirely by accident a couple years ago), I've long since hit the acceptance stage, but those of you needing more justification would do well to read.

*They really seemed like 5 pounds. Not only do I have no spatial vision, I also clearly don't know my own strength.