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The Fine art of Fermentation is the most extensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever printed. Sandor Ellix Katz reveals the ideas and processes behind fermentation in ways that are not difficult to guide listeners through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide higher understanding and insight for experienced experts. While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and cultural development, health and diet, and even economics, this is mostly a compendium of functional information - how the processes work; guidelines for safety; approaches for effective preservation; troubleshooting; and much more. Having a foreword by Michael Pollan, The Fine art of Fermentation provides essential wisdom for cooks, homesteaders, farmers, gleaners, foragers, and food buffs of any kind who want to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for probably the oldest form of food preservation, and part of the roots of culture itself. Listeners will find detailed information on fermenting vegetables; sugar into alcoholic beverages (meads, wines, and ciders); sour tonic drinks; milk; grains and starchy tubers; beers (and other grain-based alcoholic beverages); beans; seed products; nuts; fish; meat; and eggs, as well as growing mold cultures, using fermentation in agriculture, skill, and energy production, and things to consider for commercial companies. Sandor Katz has launched what will doubtlessly remain a classic in food books, and is also the first - and only - of its kind.
