Christina Ward

Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Expertise: Food preservation

Christina Ward is a Wisconsin Master Food Preserver and writer.
She is a contributor to Edible Milwaukee, The Wall Street Journal, and The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel.
For Serious Eats, she wrote in-depth articles about the science and principles behind food preservation.

Experience

Christina Ward is a Wisconsin Master Food Preserver and writer. She is a contributor to Edible Milwaukee, The Wall Street Journal, and The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel. She is also a food historian who was featured in Padma Lakshmi’s television series Taste the Nation.

For Serious Eats, she wrote in-depth articles about the science and principles behind food preservation. She is the author of three books: Preservation: The Art and Science of Canning, Fermentation and Dehydration (2017), American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam and Jell-O (2019), and Holy Food: Recipes and Foodways from Cults, Communes, and New religious Movements (2022).

About Serious Eats

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