Mary T. Bell

Mary Bell's Complete Dehydrator Cookbook is one of the only dehydrator books you'll need to get started dehydrating foods. It's jam-packed with recipes and instructions. Some of the book explains the history of drying foods, all about dehydrators, and the water content in specific foods. It's separated into two parts and is well organized.

This is a great starter book for beginners. I'd like to check out the revised book, but even though this one was published in 1994, it has the basic show more information needed and some great recipes including recipes that incorporate dried foods. I do wish the book contained photos.

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The author has pretty much covered everything you can do with a home dehydrator, and explained why the stuff you can't do is impossible. A good reference book. I'm still a little skeptical about her assertion that you cannot dry tomato paste without added pectin, but if you really can't, Mary Bell is prepared with several ways to add pectin to the concoction.

This is about as complete a book on dehydrating as you will find. Directions are clear and results are good, but the book is dead boring to read.

A fun and fabulous guide to creating snacks