The Everyday Fermentation Handbook: A Real-Life Guide to Fermenting Food--Without Losing Your Mind or Your Microbes

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Easy recipes to ferm up any kitchen! Get ready for a wild microbial transformation with the healthy and flavorful foods in The Everyday Fermentation Handbook! Going way beyond ordinary sauerkraut and kimchi, this book teaches you the ins and outs of fermentation with simple instructions for fermenting just about every kitchen staple. Complete with tasty recipes for turning fermented foods into meals, you'll relish the opportunity to fill each day with mouthwatering dishes like: Sourdough Belgian waffles Miso and mushroom soup Sauerkraut Pretzel grilled cheese Chickpea and wild rice tempeh Hard cider pie The Everyday Fermentation Handbook helps you create more than 100 delicious fermented recipes--and a bona fide zoo of microbial diversity--right at home!

Branden Byers is the writer, photographer, and host of FermUp, a blog and weekly podcast. Founded in January 2013, FermUp has already been an iTunes featured podcast and covered by local press. Byers also writes for HandPickedNation.com and PunkDomestics.com, teaches fermentation classes, and has a large network of other amateurs and professionals in the national fermented food space.

"The Everyday Fermentation Handbook is a very accessible introduction to fermentation, with clear, detailed, and straightforward instructions to get you started fermenting all sorts of things at home." --Sandor Ellix Katz, Author of The Art of Fermentation and Wild Fermentation "Branden Byers' writing style and recipe choices really make the seemingly magical process of fermentation approachable. The real strength of this book is the recipes, and Byers does a very nice job of taking the reader by the hand and guiding them from the simple to the complex." --Sustainablog