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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 food--bread, coffee, chocolate, beer, wine, cheese, miso, yogurt, and 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.
About the author:
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 hills of Tennessee.
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