Fermentation pre-digests foods, making nutrients more bioavailable, and in many cases fermentation generates additional nutrients or removes anti-nutrients or toxins. This is also true for ferments that have been heated. Ferments with live (lactic-acid producing) bacteria intact are especially supportive of digestive health, immune function, and general well-being. And of course ferments taste delicious and add interesting flavours and textures.
To ferment your own food is a declaration of independence from an economy that would much prefer we were all passive consumers of its commodities, rather than creators of unique products expressive of ourselves and the places we live in. Because your sauerkraut or homebrew will be nothing like mine or anyone else’s. - Michael Pollan in the forword of Sandor Katz’s The Art of Fermentation, Quotes
Culture: noun, 1. Starter that initiates fermentation. 2. The totality of all that humans seek to pass from generation to generation. - Paraphrased, from The Art of Fermentation (Sandor Katz)
Fermentation allows us to grasp biodiversity on many levels in intricate ways. Watching cabbage turn into kimchi, milk into yogurt, or grapes into wine is a truly magical process that reveals the otherwise invisible microorganisms that prepare our food for us. By showing that microbes are everywhere - in us, on us, and around us - it is a powerful reminder that humans are part of nature and not separate from it. In this way, thinking with fermentation can help us to foster a holistic understanding of biodiversity. - Christiane Heisse & Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova, Power to the microbes: Reclaiming traditional foods for a degrowth food future
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All fermentation products - An ongoing collection of all fermentation products I come across
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Fermentation reading list- Interesting articles and books
Vegetables (& fruit) fermentations 🥕🥬🌶️
Myriad beings beneath my sight, thank you for your transformations. May you nourish me as I nourish you. May you thrive in me as I thrive on earth. In all the worlds may nourishment follow hunger as the echo follows the call. - Kraut Prayer by Eli Brown, from The Art of Fermentation (Sandor Katz), Quotes
Dairy- and plant-based milk fermentations 🥛🌾
- Dairy fermentation notes
- Plant-based dairy fermentation notes
- Yogurt recipes
- Yogurt experiments
- Pre-, pro- and postbiotics
Tempeh 🫘
Koji, miso, shoyu, aminos 🍜🍶
Recipes that have koji as their basis.