” To “put by” is an early nineteenth-century way of saying to save something you don’t have to use now, against the time when you’ll need it…Putting food by is prudence, and it’s involvement. It’s also a meaningful return to old simplicities and skills. Above all, it is deeply satisfying. We know what is added to food we put by for our families. And we have a direct return for effort–which has be become a luxury in these times of remote and deviously routed forces.”
–Janet Greene, in Putting Food By, January 1973.