Meet the Diva

Diane Devereaux, The Canning Diva®, is an internationally known food preservation expert with over 30 years experience in home canning and food preservation. She has successfully educated individuals in a variety of food preservation methods for over 10 years.

Educated in culinary math, foodborne pathogens and food safety from the SECCHIA Institute of Culinary Education, Diane has successfully taught the art and craft of home canning across the globe, empowering individuals and removing fear. She regularly creates new canning recipes and techniques which are tested by an independent US-based laboratory.

A well-known recipe creator and best-selling author, Diane has authored seven cookbooks with a combined sales of over 375,000 copies. Her eighth book (The Heritage Skills Handbook) is set to launch Summer 2027 with Harvest House Publishers. Her podcast, Canning with The Diva!™, is ranked Top 25 on Buzzsprout with over 107,000 downloads and growing.

Who is Diane Devereaux?

Diane Devereaux, The Canning Diva®, is an internationally recognized food preservation expert, author, television presenter, instructor, and mother of two. Since 2012, Diane has been sharing her lifelong passion for canning and food preservation, translating over 30 years of experience into practical solutions for the busy lives of families across the globe. She recently became a Floridian and is enjoying the splendors of sunshine and a longer growing season.

Diane earned her bachelor’s degree in international business from Davenport University and later plunged into a career in disaster management, where she applied her knowledge of food preservation, survival, and sustainability to those in crisis. Her deep-rooted experience in home canning, combined with her background in preparedness, led her to create The Canning Diva® – a brand that blends her love of gardening and preserving with her commitment to self-reliance and practical education.

A staunch advocate for individual rights to know what’s in the food they eat, Diane proudly supports honest and transparent food labeling. This belief fuels her year-round dedication to gardening and preserving foods at home, ensuring a healthy lifestyle for herself and her loved ones. Her mission is to keep the time-honored traditions of food preservation and heritage food crafts alive and thriving, teaching these invaluable skills to households across the world through everything she creates, writes, and shares.

Diane has made it her goal to teach these time-honored traditions at various culinary schools and commercial kitchens. She hosts a weekly podcast, Canning with The Diva!™, where listeners learn and grow their food preservation skills and stay up-to-date with home canning trends and recipes.

The Canning Diva® has been featured in various magazines such as Flavor616, Women’s Lifestyle, West Michigan Woman and Natural Awakenings and has made several TV appearances on WZZM Channel 13 Healthy You, WOODTV8 Eight West, WZZM Take Five & Company and FOX17 News demonstrating home canning techniques and signature recipes. She played a vital role in a BBC News podcast on The Food Chain, helping listeners across the globe learn how to come together no matter their background, so they may preserve food and stock their pantries.

Diane is also an fervid writer who spends her free time developing a work of woman’s fiction in which she hopes to one day publish.

The Canning Diva® is proud to announce her first self-published cookbook, Canning Full Circle: Garden to Jar to Table, won the 2018 IPPY Bronze Medal in the Cookbook – Nutrition/Vegetarian category.

Click here to view the full list of the 2018 IPPY Award winners.

The Independent Publisher Book Awards (the “IPPYs”) are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of exemplary independent, university, and self-published titles published each year. The awards are open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and to authors and publishers worldwide who produce books intended for an English-speaking market.

Since the inaugural contest in 1996, nearly 5,000 books have received IPPY Awards, along with the recognition, credibility, and increased sales that a book award can bring. Independent spirit and expertise comes from publishers of all sizes and budgets, and books are judged with that in mind.

There are 410 total medalists who represent independently authored books from 41 U.S. states plus Guam and District of Columbia; 6 Canadian provinces; and 12 countries overseas.

Photography Credit

I’m grateful to work with food photographer Jeff Hage of Green Frog Photo. Unless otherwise noted, all food photography on this website was created by Jeff and is used with his permission. I also license select stock images from 123rf.com to illustrate certain articles and stories. Please do not reproduce or redistribute any images on this site without obtaining the proper permissions from Jeff, Green Frog Photo or 123rf.com.