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Sandor
Ellix Katz is a self-described "fermentation fetishist."
His explorations in fermentation developed out of overlapping interests
in cooking, nutrition, and gardening. A long-term HIV/AIDS survivor,
Katz considers fermented foods to be an important part of his healing.
A native of New York City, the author is a resident steward of Short
Mountain Sanctuary, a queer intentional community in the wooded
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Wild Fermentation
The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture
Foods
by
Sandor Ellix Katz
$25.00
Softcover
- 187 pages
Celebrate
Live Foods!
Get
ready to take a whirlwind trip through the wild world of fermented and
live-culture cuisine! These vital foods—at the forefront of the
"food as nutrition" movement—provide incredible health
benefits and are delicious and easy to make.
Since
the beginnings of human culture, we've been nourished by fermented foods—bread,
coffee, chocolate, beer, wine, cheese, miso, yogurt, sauerkraut are
a few of the most familiar—relying on the magic of fermentation
to preserve and enhance the flavor and health benefits of what we eat
and drink. Fermented food is literally alive with the complex bacterial
activity so necessary to life itself, not deadened or destroyed by industrial
food processing.
Wild
Fermentation is the only comprehensive recipe book of fermented and
live-culture cuisine ever published. Much more than a cookbook, it is
a "cultural manifesto" that explores the history and politics
of human nutrition. This revolutionary and unique book will appeal to
anyone interested in world food traditions and the vital connection
between real food and good health.
"In
the spirit of the great reformers and artists, Sandor Katz has labored
mightily to deliver this magnum opus to a population hungry for a reconnection
to real food, and to the process of life itself."
—from
the Foreword by Sally Fallon, author of Nourishing Traditions
"This
is a very well written book, a pleasure to read, with excellent information
and easy recipes for cultured and fermented foods. If you read it carefully,
you will even find a recipe for gentle social activism that will help
you feel you can indeed do something to improve the state of the world."
—Annemarie
Colbin, author of Food and Healing
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