Task
Paraphrase the text below and post your paraphrased version here so we can share ideas and discuss in class.
Preserving Food
One of the chief problems with food is its relatively short storage life. Since earliest times man has tried to preserve his perishable foods by drying or adding salt, sugar or spices. It is one thing to preserve foods safely to allow broader distribution and reasonable shelf life. It is quite another to embalm food that is too far gone to be acceptable as fresh.
Academic English 