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.

Fermenting your own sauerkraut at home is simple. All you need is cabbage, salt, water, and time. Just remember to check on ...

Melissa Perello is the executive chef at Octavia and Frances, in San Francisco. When we were in the process of opening Octavia, I met Berkeley-based pottery artist Sarah Kersten at a flea market event ...

This video gives a quick explanation on how to use a recycled pickle jar for lacto fermentation purposes with an example of sauerkraut. It is not how to make sauerkraut but more so how lacto ...

Sarah Kersten doesn’t just make pretty pottery, she communes with clay. After all, the Berkeley artist says, it was one unique vessel that got her into professional pottery making in the first place.

Oranges and lemons, the bells of St. Clement’s – anything can be fermented if you try hard enough. But why, and how? A means ...

Scientists revived a forgotten Balkan recipe where live forest ants and their microbes naturally turn warm milk into yogurt.