As a little girl I made several trips to basements retrieving glass, sometimes dusty, jars of preserved food. Both sets of grandparents lived on farms in southeast Nebraska and grew a lot of their own food.  “Jaime, run downstairs and get me 2 quarts of green beans.”   “Jaime, can you go to the basement and pick out a jar of dill pickles?”  “Jaime, go grab a pint of tomato juice from the basement cupboard.”  I grew up with canned (jarred) food and really didn’t think too much about it.  My mom and grandma would spend many summer days “putting up” sweet corn, beans, tomatoes, beets, pickles, relish, etc., and although my older sister and I would help out from time-to-time (mainly snapping beans or shucking corn), I wasn’t too interested in it nor did I understand the value or importance of it. It was just there, in the background of my childhood.