114: The wild world of fermentation

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Traditional people groups around the world have long valued fermentation as a process that preserves food and makes its nutrients more bio-available. Today, fermentation "revivalist" and well-known author Sandor Katz takes us on a tour of the wild world of fermentation. He discusses how it works, how delicious it tastes, and how it benefits our bodies.

He also dives into his own story—what piqued his interest in fermentation in the first place, and what he's learned from recent travels around the world. He shares about the foods he's enjoyed, the connections he's made, and the fermentation traditions that are still being used today. He completes the interview with something of a mini-workshop on how to make sauerkraut.

This conversation is a fermentation "starter," of sorts. It will spark curiosity and wonder at the mysterious process of fermentation.

For more on Sandor, visit his website: wildfermentation.com

And check out our sponsors: krautpounder.com and farmtoconsumer.org!

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0:00.0	After a couple of generations of associating bacteria exclusively with danger and
0:06.4	disease and death, people are recognizing that the story is a little bit more
0:10.2	complicated than that and bacteria actually are important to our well-being. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for
0:28.6	Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the Healing Arts. We are your source for scientific knowledge
0:34.4	and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.
0:38.0	I'm your host Hilda Labrada Gore. This is episode 114 and my guest is Sandor Cats, a self-described
0:48.1	fermentation revivalist. Sandor is the author of Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation.
0:54.4	He has held hundreds of Fermentation workshops around the world and has really been a catalyst
0:59.5	to the revival of the Fermentation Arts.
1:02.4	He has been called one of the unlikely rock stars of the
1:05.1	American food scene. We are so thrilled to have him on the show today and he takes us with
1:09.6	him into the wild world of fermentation. He de-mystifies it, he describes how it transforms food
1:16.2	and the benefits it has for us. He even takes us on a mini tour of fermented foods around the world.
1:22.3	You're going to love this conversation, but before we get into it, a quick thank you to our sponsors. Krautpounder! Are you ready to get started with fermentation? Get yourself a Krautpounder from Krautut pounder.com. Each piece is made from solid maple natural hardwood
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2:11.0	Welcome to Wise Traditionitions, Sandor.
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