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New York Times Bestseller

Sandor Ellix Katz

Hardcover

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identify One of the 25 Most Influential cookbook From the Last 100 Years byThe New York Times

The Art of Fermentation

The original guide to kraut , kombucha , kimchi , kefir , and kvass ; mead , wine , and cyder ; pickles and relishes ; tempeh , koji , miso , sourdough and so much more … !

Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship , and aNew York Timesbestseller , with more than a one-quarter million copies sold , The Art of Fermentationis the most comprehensive guide to do - it - yourself home fermentation ever publish . Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind tempestuousness in ways that are simple enough to guide on a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yoghourt , and in - depth enough to provide greater reason and perceptivity for experient practitioners .

While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and ethnic evolution , health and sustenance , and even economics , this is in the first place a collection of practical entropy — how the processes work ; parameters for safety ; techniques for good preservation ; troubleshooting ; and more .

With two - color illustration and drawn-out resource , this book provides essential soundness for James Cook , homesteaders , farmers , gleaner , forager , and food lovers of any kind who require to develop a deeper agreement and appreciation for arguably the oldest form of food preservation , and part of the roots of culture itself .

lector will find detailed information on turn vegetables ; lettuce into alcoholic drink ( meads , wines , and cider ) ; sour tonic beverage ; milk ; food grain and starchy tubers ; beers ( and other grain - based alcoholic beverages ) ; beans ; seeds ; nuts ; fish ; pith ; and egg , as well as growing mold culture , using fermentation in Agriculture Department , artwork , and energy production , and considerations for commercial-grade enterprises . Sandor Katz has introduced what will undoubtedly remain a classic in intellectual nourishment lit , and is the first — and only — of its kind .

“ The bible for the D.I.Y set : detailed educational activity for how to make your own sauerkraut , beer , yogurt and pretty much everything involving microorganism . ”—The New York Times

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