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National Canners Association
A longtime trade group rather than a single writer, this name appears on practical books and bulletins that helped explain canning to both industry workers and home cooks. Its publications capture a moment when processed food was becoming a major part of everyday American life.
1 Audiobook
Tomato products: pulp, ketchup, and chili sauce.
by W. D. (Willard Dell) Bigelow, A. E. Stevenson, National Canners Association
About the author
The National Canners Association was an American industry organization, founded in 1907, that later became the National Food Processors Association and then the Food Products Association. Along the way, it published manuals, reports, recipe booklets, and promotional works tied to the canning and food-processing business.
As an “author,” the name usually represents a corporate body rather than one individual. Catalog and library records connect it with works on sanitation, food processing, accounting, and the history of canning, showing how it tried to shape both professional standards and public understanding of canned foods.
That makes this byline interesting in an audiobook or library catalog: it points to the voice of an era and an industry, not a single personality. Because it is an organization rather than a person, a reliable portrait image is not really applicable here.