interview by Katie Bohri Eager to excite your palate and shake up your kitchen routine while adding nutrition and probiotics to your diet? Check out Philadelphia fermenting guru Amanda Feifer’s new book Ferment Your Vegetables. With time, a few vegetables, water and salt—key to keeping bad bacteria at bay—you can make vegetables last longer and
MoreProbiotics are available on their own as supplements, but these don’t have the potency to fend off something like salmonella or ulcers. For that, you need fermented food. | Photos by Gene Smirnov
A dedicated community in Philadelphia revives the lost art of fermentation
Seven thousand years ago, a thirsty Neolithic Iranian watched Eurasian grapes ferment into
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15.jpg This Saturday, Tara Whitsitt of Fermentation on Wheels will hold a workshop on vegetable fermentation at Mariposa Food Coop from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Using local, seasonal ingredients, Whitsitt will teach and prepare a wild ferment. She’ll also hold a forum on starter cultures and attendees can bring an empty jar and take a
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Over the last eight months, Tara Whitsitt has been driving a bus teeming with bacteria, yeast and fermented food across the country. On Friday, she arrives in Philadelphia, her latest stop on a cross country tour aimed at educating people about the wonders of kimchi, kombucha, sourdough, vegetable pickling, and all things fermentation, while
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story by Dana HenryAlmost 10 years ago, Sandor Katz, the self-proclaimed fermentation fetishist, wrote and published the ‘zine-turned-book, Wild Fermentation, a DIY bible for making food with healthful bacteria. After a second book and years of touring, educating and meddling with microbes, Katz is back with his third and most comprehensive text
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