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Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods |  | Author: Sandor Ellix Katz
Creator: Sally Fallon
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 1649
Media: Paperback
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1931498237
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.7
EAN: 9781931498234
ASIN: 1931498237
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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Product Description
For thousands of years humans have enjoyed the taste and nutrition of fermented foods and drinks. We rely on the transformative, almost magical power of fermentation to preserve and improve all sorts of food, making them tastier, more digestible, and more appealing. Author Sandor Katz takes readers on a whirlwind trip through the wild world of fermentation. The book is divided into chapters that focus on particular types of food and Katz provides readers with delicious recipes-some familiar, others exotic-that are easy to make at home, including vegetable krauts and kimchis; sourdough breads and pancakes; miso and tempeh; beers, wines, and meads; yogurt and cheeses. The recipes provide a veritable smorgasbord of tastes, like homemade tempeh, sauerkraut, and borscht, along with a basic description of yogurt and cheese-making, complete with vegan alternatives. Whether you prefer to wash down your meal with Elderberry wine or Nepalese rice beer, there's something here to satisfy any palate. Katz, a leading expert on the history of these foods, has written a revolutionary and informative culinary guide he calls "a cultural manifesto." He has experimented with many forms of fermentation and has developed and collected a wide range of techniques and recipes from around the world.
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 amazing reference for fermentation July 27, 2010
Laura Lindberg
This is definitely the "go to" book for all things fermenting. Thoughtfully written and interesting to boot. Loved it!!!
 awful book, idea of fermentation is great but this book too political June 20, 2010
J. O'Malley-Heredia (Wash DC, USA)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is too political at some points, vulgar at otherpoints, and bizarre points about death towards the end of the book. I am all for fermentation but this book goes way beyond to the absurd and rediculous and strange.
lovelovelove this book May 26, 2010
Carol Jenkins (Wading River, NY United States)
This holds great interest for me. I love it. It gets right to the point, is straightforward. I am already putting the methods to work. It's wild!
 Not a "Flip Open and Cook" Kind of Book April 11, 2010
Frances E. Klein (Cincinnati, OH)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
While the introductions to the chapters and the recipes definitely catch my interest and make me want to prepare these recipes, I am finding over and over again that the recipes are not written in a way where you could flip to the page and go.
Frequently, the instructions refer in an unclear manner to a different recipe that you need to follow in part, but make some changes.
Other times one of the ingredients is a recipe in itself, but no page number is given for where to find these extra instructions. For instance, many recipes call for "honey water," but give no information about how to prepare "honey water" or where in the book to find this concoction, leaving you to page through and search for it. Once you find honey water, you find that it is in a recipe for honey wine. Are the the recipes that call for "honey water" intending for you to use the ingredients from this honey wine recipe or use the final product? No answer is apparent.
I feel like I will have to re-write each of these recipes to include their FULL INSTRUCTIONS to make them user friendly. I don't know whether this was a choice made to save space, a sign of a disorganized mind, or simple laziness on the part of the author.
Objectionable Additions March 27, 2010
J. Klocke
19 out of 59 found this review helpful
I think I'm going to return this book to amazon because I just don't want to give my dollars in support of things I disagree with. The social agenda comes through in the small sections I read, including his endorsement of active homosexuality and some anti-missionary sentiment. I wish it were just a cookbook! I have compassion for Sandor Katz but I firmly disagree with some of the things he writes about.
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