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A clear, confident, and joyful guide to making—and cooking with—miso, kimchi, quick pickles, kombucha, and more. “An open-hearted collection of stories, practical tips, and excellent recipes.”—Ottolenghi Test Kitchen
Ferment gives you all that’s needed to start your fermented foods adventure—whether you want to make simple pickles, dive into lactofermentation, or discover flavor-packed meals to cook with your homemade (or store-bought!) ferments.
Pickles and ferments bring so much flavor and variety to meals, and they’re much easier to make than they seem. Enter third-culture cook and fermenting expert Kenji Morimoto, who shows just how simple it is to introduce homemade kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha, miso, super-quick pickles, and more into your everyday cooking with delicious, gut-healthy results.
Recent research encourages us to eat thirty plants a week to help our microbiome to thrive. Thanks to Kenji’s inventive, globally inspired recipes, eating fermented foods becomes a pleasure as well as the healthiest choice. Whether it’s Kimchi Onion Bhajis served with Cilantro and Mint Miso Chutney, Green Bean Miso Soup with Curried Crispy Lima Beans, Kombucha Sorbet, or Preserved Rhubarb and Mixed Berry Pound Cake, this is flavor-forward food like you haven’t seen before.
Part one shows you how to make your own ferments and pickles, giving you all the trouble-shooting advice and step-by-step guidance you need, plus plenty of Kenji’s unique spins: think Watermelon Rind Kimchi, Pumpkin Miso, and Koji Chimichurri. Part two introduces easy and irresistible apps, dinners, desserts, and even cocktails to make with them. (Or, if you prefer, you can prepare them with your favorite store-bought products instead.)
Ferment is a stylish and practical cookbook that will help you bring this ancient technique into your own kitchen.
“This book is a beautifully crafted and illustrated guide to the subtle arts of preserving food that will make us all feel ready to start fermenting today.”—Tim Spector, author of Spoon-Fed and founder of the nutrition app ZOE
“Kenji demystifies fermentation, so now you too can make fermenting as instinctive as reaching for salt. This book is an open-hearted collection of stories, practical tips and excellent recipes.”—Ottolenghi Test Kitchen
“Ferment is a gentle, open invitation to discover fermentation with Kenji. In fact, reading this book is like spending time with him in the kitchen while he shares stories and knowledge. It is a fresh, creative, generous offering of techniques and enchanting recipes to inspire both practiced and novice cooks and fermenters.”—Kirsten K. Shockey, author of Fermented Vegetables
“For two decades now I’ve worked with fermented foods as a chef, educator, and researcher. I’ve seen, smelled, and tasted some fantastically funky foods in my day; when I say that Ferment is one of the funkiest and freshest guides to fermentation I’ve come across, I mean it. Get ready to bask in the delicious benefits of microbes with Kenji as your guide.”—Jeremy Umansky, coauthor of Koji Alchemy
“I know I'm in safe hands with Kenji's fermentation wisdom and approachable yet exciting recipes—I can't wait to get stuck in.”—Leyla Kazim, travel and food writer
