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Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods, 2nd Edition

Discover the book that started the fermentation revolution—now with more photos and even more recipes for fermented foods—from the James Beard Award winner and New York Times-bestselling author.

“The best and most accessible guide out there to this most ancient style of preservation.” —Epicurious

James Beard Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Sandor Ellix Katz returns to his iconic, bestselling fermentation book with a fresh perspective, renewed enthusiasm, and expanded wisdom from his travels around the world. This self-described fermentation revivalist is perhaps best known simply as “Sandorkraut”, which describes his joyful and demystifying approach to making and eating fermented foods, the health benefits of which have helped launch a nutrition-based food revolution.

This updated and revised edition of Katz’s classic fermentation book, now with full color photos throughout, is sure to introduce a whole new generation to the flavors and health benefits of fermented foods. Discover new and beloved recipes for:

• Vegetable ferments
• Lightly fermented beverages
• Dairy ferments and vegan alternatives
• Grain ferments, include porridges, soft drinks, soups, flatbreads, and breads
• Bean ferments
• Wines, including mead, cider, and more
• Beers
• Vinegars

Since its original publication, Wild Fermentation has inspired people to turn their kitchens into food labs: fermenting vegetables into sauerkraut, milk into cheese or yogurt, grains into sourdough bread, and much more. In turn, they’ve traded batches, shared recipes, and joined thousands of others on a journey of creating healthy food for themselves, their families, and their communities. Katz has been called “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene” by The New York Times and the “Johnny Appleseed of Fermentation” by Michael Pollan.

Katz’s gateway to fermentation was sauerkraut. Open this book to find yours—and start a little food revolution right in your own kitchen!

“Provides know-how, recipes, [and] you-can-do-it spunk.”—Wired Magazine

About The Author

Sandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, his explorations in fermentation developed out of his overlapping interests in cooking, nutrition, and gardening. He is the author of four previous books: Wild Fermentation, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, The Art of Fermentation—which won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2013—and Fermentation as Metaphor. The hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world have helped catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. The New York Times calls Sandor “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” For more information, check out his website: www.wildfermentation.com.

  • Publish Date: August 19, 2016
  • Format: eBook
  • Category: Cooking - Methods - Canning & Preserving
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green
  • Pages: 320
  • US Price: $21.99
  • CDN Price: $41.95
  • ISBN: 978-1-60358-629-0

Reviews

“[Katz is] the country's foremost fermentation expert . . . [and] Wild Fermentation is the best and most accessible guide out there to this most ancient style of preservation.”
Epicurious

“In the new and revised edition, there's a clear effort to make the recipes more straightforward and easy to understand. Soon, like me, you'll have a batch of sauerkraut fermenting away in a cool space, all year long.”
Wired Magazine

“For amateur picklers and kimchi-makers, there is a new edition of Wild Fermentation, the manual that helped its author, Sandor Katz, become a heroic figure among cooks who ferment their own foods.”
The New York Times

Wild Fermentation [has]become a manifesto and how-to manual for a generation of underground food activists.”
The New Yorker

“This updated and revised edition is a more accurate reflection of the recipes Sandor makes at home—and the knowledge he's accrued by teaching workshops to eager students.”
Food52

“Folks flock to study books such as Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation, both by the fermentation movement’s guru, Sandor Katz.”
USA Today

“[When] I open my copy of Wild Fermentation I find that Sandor Ellix Katz, the fermentation guru and master who has inspired so many to explore the world of wild foods, always has a way to reflect on culture and society through his writing. While he writes amount fermented foods, the meaning is always deeper.”
Paste Magazine

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