For cooks, keeping the flavor and freshness of a harvest—and storing it for later use—has given fermented foods a major role in many cuisines. The process of fermentation, an ancient food preservation ...

A team of Canadian researchers is pushing for fermented foods to become more prominent in dietary advice, including in Canada ...

Fermented foods have been part of human diets for thousands of years, transforming ordinary ingredients into nutritional powerhouses through the magic of microbes. These tangy, complex foods aren’t ...

If you’re a fan of all things salty and briney, pickles and capers are just the beginning—do not overlook sauerkraut. If you’re new to this delicious fermented food, you might be wondering how to eat ...

Once the harvest season winds down, it’s time for our tiniest helpers to get to work turning fruit into booze and vinegar, soybeans into miso and tempeh, cabbage into kraut and kimchi, and milk into ...

In an era of grocery stores and home refrigerators, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that, for most of history, people have been bound by the seasonality of food. This reality has long presented ...

CHICAGO — Iliana Regan is a self-taught chef from the Midwest who has roots in Eastern European cooking styles, most notably foraging for mushrooms, berries and edible plants. She often uses ...

Something fascinating is happening in kitchens around the world. While everyone was busy perfecting their sourdough starters during quarantine, a much bigger food revolution was quietly brewing.

Salt, water and time. The rest is up to the microbes. That's the formula behind lactic acid fermentation, in which yeasts and bacteria convert starches or sugars into lactic acid, yielding foods like ...

Soak the oats in about 1 quart water, in a loosely covered container. Stir, smell, and taste the soaking liquid daily to monitor the evolving flavor. I’ve gone as long as 5 days, at which point I ...

It could be argued that the world’s cuisines owe a lot to the long history of food preservation — the ingenious and unexpected ways to prolong the lifespan of food that have allowed humans not only to ...