The most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published, with more than a quarter million copies sold!

Named by The New York Times as one of the 25 most influential cookbooks from the last 100 years, and with a foreword by Michael Pollan

The ultimate guide for kraut, kombucha, kimchi, kefir, kvass, mead, wine, cider, pickles and relishes, tempeh, koji, miso, sourdough and so much more! Packed with extensive resources and illustrations, this classic of food literature from fermentation expert Sandor Katz provides extensive wisdom on the concepts and processes behind fermentation.

Readers will find detailed information on:

• Fermenting vegetables, beans, seeds, nuts, fish, meat, and eggs
• Sugars into alcohol (meads, wines, and ciders) plus beers and other grain-based alcoholic beverages
• Sour tonic beverages, milk, plus grains and starchy tubers
• Growing mold cultures
• Using fermentation in agriculture, art, and energy production
• Considerations for commercial enterprises

Whether you’re a first timer making your first batch of sauerkraut or yogurt, or you’re an experienced practitioner looking for a deeper understanding and appreciation for food preservation, this compendium provides over 500 pages of practical information on fermentation processes, parameters for safety, techniques for effective preservation, and troubleshooting.

"The bible for the D.I.Y set: detailed instructions for how to make your own sauerkraut, beer, yogurt and pretty much everything involving microorganisms."—The New York Times

**Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book Award**

Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners. While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and cultural evolution, health and nutrition, and even economics, this is primarily a compendium of practical information how the processes work; parameters for safety; techniques for effective preservation; troubleshooting; and more. With two-color illustrations and extended resources, this book provides essential wisdom for cooks, homesteaders, farmers, gleaners, foragers, and food lovers of any kind who want to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for arguably the oldest form of food preservation, and part of the roots of culture itself. Readers will find detailed information on fermenting vegetables; sugars into alcohol (meads, wines, and ciders); sour tonic beverages; milk; grains and starchy tubers; beers (and other grain-based alcoholic beverages); beans; seeds; nuts; fish; meat; and eggs, as well as growing mold cultures, using fermentation in agriculture, art, and energy production, and considerations for commercial enterprises.