A candy maker helped popularize canning by bottling everything from eel to eggs to peaches
Napoleon wanted to conquer the world, but he lost thousands of his soldiers to hunger, disease and hypothermia.Heritage Images via Getty Images Expanding empires and maritime exploration in the 1800s required reliably preserved food. A confectioner was rewarded with 12,000 francs for his method of heating food and placing it in glass jars. The bottles… Read More »