Saving Our Harvest - The Story of the Mid-Atlantic Region's Canning and Freezing Industry by Ed Kee


Saving Our HarvestNEW Book!
The Story of the Mid-Atlantic Region's Canning
and Freezing Industry by Ed Kee

   In the 1840’s, a few pioneering entrepreneurs in Baltimore began preserving Chesapeake Bay oysters by cooking them in hermetically sealed cans. This was the beginning of America’s food processing industry. Subsequently, a major food industry that canned and froze vegetables, fruit and seafood spread across the Mid-Atlantic States of Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and Delaware. By the end of the 19th century, nearly 1,000 independent canning companies, representing sixty-one percent of America’s canneries, were operating in these four states. The food canning and freezing industry, above all, is the story of innovative people – processors, farmers, mechanics, factory workers, farm workers, oyster shuckers and many more – interacting with each other and their environment as they brought science, technology, old fashioned common sense and an incredible work ethic to bear on the task of growing, processing, and marketing high quality, safe and nutritious canned and frozen foods to America and the World.

Contents
Preface & Acknowledgements
Forward and Introduction – Our First Industry

PART ONE – America's First Industry - 1809 to 1900
Chapter One - Origins and A Process
Chapter Two - Baltimore and the Bay: Center of a New Industry
Chapter Three – Science, Technology and Demand
Chapter Four - Canning Spreads to the Countryside:1875-1900

PART TWO – 1901 TO 2000
Chapter Five - The Campbell Soup Company
Chapter Six – The Formation of a Trade Association: The Tri-State Packers Assoc.
Chapter Seven - The Region’s Industry: 1900-1940
Chapter Eight - The Phillips Packing Company
Chapter Nine - Hidden Fields: Harvesting the Bays
Chapter Ten - Tomatoes
Chapter Eleven – Frozen Food
Chapter Twelve – The Seabrook’s of New Jersey
Chapter Thirteen – The Industry Changes: 1940 - 2006
Chapter Fourteen – Three Companies That Operated For One Hundred Years
Chapter Fifteen – Work Worth Doing

PART THREE – APPENDICES
Appendix I - Directory of Canners – 1889
Appendix II - Directory of Canners – 1919
Appendix III - Directory of Canners – 1927
Appendix IV - Processors Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey – 1960

PART FOUR – BIBLIOGRAPHIC, INDEX & COLOR LABEL


April 2006, Hardbound - ISBN 978-0-930027-35-3

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