The Pre-order
The Pre-Order
The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook will be available to pre-order next Friday, November 18.
To the Wiley Canning Company community,
My appreciation for you is as present and deep as Earth’s oceans. The closer I get to releasing The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook into the world, the more certain I am of this truth: we do not and cannot walk alone.
Every ounce of energy poured into The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook was mixed with your support and nourished by your kindness. I could not have written this book alone. It required a community. It required a village. It required you.
Through The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook, it is a gift and deep honor to soon share my knowledge and recipes with you. I wholly believe it will give rise to new perspective, appreciation, and practices related to food, specifically fruits and vegetables, in your welcoming home. In turn, I believe it will add value and meaning to your extraordinary life.
The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook focuses on delicious ingredients that ultimately lead to delicious meals. A jar of Canned Tomatoes brings forth a bowl of homemade chili, one that will warm your body and expand a readied heart. Creating this book was one of my life’s greatest joys, and to soon share it with you will be one of my life’s greatest fortunes.
Everything you need to know about the pre-order
When:
Friday, November 18, 2022
Where:
You can pre-order The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook through Wiley Canning Company and Blue Hills Press.
Signed Copies:
Signed pre-order copies are available only through Wiley Canning Company and Blue Hills Press.
Pre-order Options:
One:
You can simply pre-order The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook.
Two:
You can pre-order an exclusive bundle, including The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook, a PDF preview of the book, and a 5x7 photographic print.
Publication Day:
March 28, 2023
Today, I will leave you with an essay from The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook. This is a personal note I offer near the beginning of the book with an intention to spark thought about your heart and life.
The good news is, simply by reading these words at this very moment, you already know so much about me. Who and what I value, and how I wish to live, brought us here. These truths are the result of my upbringing, lessons learned, and countless thin slices of luck.
I was born and raised by my mother and father in central Ohio alongside two sisters, two sets of grandparents, miles of green land, and endless, unobstructed sky. My maternal grandparents were both raised by agrarian families and were farmers themselves. This heritage significantly impacted how I grew up. Of course, we would live in the Ohio countryside. Of course, we would eat strawberries every spring, savor sweet corn every summer, and make the majority of our meals at home. Of course, my first job would be on my grandparents’ farm. An agricultural path had been forged by many before me with whom I share my blood, and my family did not stray from this lifestyle as each generation was born anew.
There was, however, one exception. My mother was the first of her immediate family to veer from familial farming customs when she bravely chose to become a teacher instead. She remained rooted in our family’s history, traditions, and values as she carried forward all she personally treasured: an unmoving commitment to hard work, the prioritization of delicious, homemade food, and the care and regeneration of the land upon which we lived. She tweaked what she noticed needed improvement and left behind what she saw as no longer needed at all. In doing so, she left the world—her world—better than she found it. By living each day in a way that left her world better than she found it, she pursued a life of generational improvement, progression, and aliveness.
I, too, wish to be brave. I, too, wish to leave the world—my world—better than I found it. To me, this also means studying my family history through a present-day lens and choosing wisely what to carry forward, what to tweak, and what to leave behind. As a granddaughter, daughter, and now mother, I, too, must pursue a life of generational improvement, progression, and aliveness.
“What makes me come alive?” I ask.
There is one thing I know for certain. Wiley Canning Company highlights what I treasure most about my family’s history, traditions, and values. Through Wiley, I, too, will carry forward an unmoving commitment to hard work, the prioritization of delicious, homemade food, and the care and regeneration of the land upon which I live—just like my mother, her mother, and all the mothers and fathers who came before us with whom we share our blood. The practice of canning, pickling, and preserving is what fills my lungs. The practice of canning, pickling, and preserving is what makes me come alive.
The Wiley Canning Company Cookbook may serve as a reminder to wake up each day, plant two feet on the ground, and pursue that which fills your lungs, that which makes you come alive.
Let us create ingredients that lead to delicious meals alongside one another. And as we do, let us feel more alive than ever.
Portrait by: Zachary Gray