Fermenting food is a process, and it all begins with the right vessel. Food & Wine / Amazon Fermentation requires very little equipment to get started, but a crock or a jar is essential.

Learn to make fermented food you’ll actually eat with these easy recipes for sauerkraut, (real) deli-style pickles, and salsa. The goal of any fermentation is to allow bacteria to run free – but you ...

Fermented foods include yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, miso, tempeh, kombucha, some cheeses, sourdough bread, and wine and beer.

Fermentation is an old way of preserving your harvest. Got too many beans? Whack ’em in some salt. Surplus of cabbage? Brine it. These days though, most of us aren’t subsistence farmers, so why bother ...

How to make sauerkraut, the delicious alternative accompaniment - This is the perfect sauerkraut to go with salads and ...

In the days before refrigerators, chemical preservatives, and fossil-fueled transportation, starving to death in the winter was a much more pervasive fear. Fermentation first arose more than 10,000 ...

Everyone should be making their own homemade sauerkraut. Not only do you get all the benefits of those fermentation-induced probiotics, but you ditch all the preservatives from canned and jarred ...

An age-old technique transforms vegetables and spices into a popular condiment with a zesty, funky taste. The key? Nurturing the right community... How hardworking microbes ferment cabbage into kimchi ...

Just like that, the $6.50 cooking lesson had ended. The lickety-split takeaway: In the time it takes to buy a jar of sauerkraut at the grocery store, you can make it yourself. Really, it’s that fast. ...

The somewhat-green sauerkraut on the left has just been made and fermentation hasn’t begun. The white sauerkraut in the middle was made 2 to 3 weeks ago and is ready to enjoy. The brown sauerkraut is ...

I love fermented foods. I love that you can leave something out on the counter, in the refrigerator — forget about it, even — and it just gets better. But why do some foods improve with age, while ...