I searched for this book for over two years and found that it did not exist. So I decided to write it. This is the first book to assemble all of the pertinent information needed to prepare and safely store your food for the long term. I researched the subject of long duration food preservation for several years, and in the process, I contacted the United States Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the top 200 food producers and processors in the United States. I secured permissions from many food producers, most with household names, to reprint their own food facts and data. Using their information and my own hands-on demonstrations and analysis, this book fills a void in the food preparation and storage information market that is very anemic. This is a comprehensive food preservation and storage manual that covers food safety in depth; and it will instruct the reader, in detail, how to prepare, pack, and store their food reserves. It is loaded with shelf life information, food facts, my own photography, graphics, illustrations and plenty of real world how-to instruction. My book is an atlas of food preservation that explains to the reader how to do far more than just dry out a few vegetables. My manuscript is a 260 page, 70,000 word, eight chapter reference book of all things that make up food storage and food safety. I packed the text with valuable food information and I guarantee the reader will be completely enlightened after reading this volume. Nowhere has more data, instruction, and overall food knowledge been assembled in one place. It is a virtual dictionary of food facts and food storage know-how.