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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Cultural Context: The Making of a Fermentation Fetish
1. Cultural Rehabilitation: The Many Benefits of Fermented Foods
2. Cultural Theory: Human Beings and the Phenomenon of Fermentation
3. Cultural Homogenization: Standardization, Uniformity, and Mass Production
4. Cultural Manipulation: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
5. Vegetable Ferments
Sauerkraut
Crock Method: Information for Larger Vessels
Sauerrüben
Low-Salt or Salt-Free Sauerkrauts
Brining
Sour Pickles
Mixed Vegetable Crock
Brined Garlic
Brine as Digestive Tonic and Soup Stock
Milkweed Pod/Nasturtium Bud/Radish Pod “Capers”
Kimchi
Bæchu (Cabbage) Kimchi
Radish and Root Kimchi
Fruit Kimchi
Gundruk
Japanese Nuka Bran Pickles
Beet Kvass (and Other Fermented Vegetable Infusions)
Choucroute Fromage Roulades
6. Lightly Fermented Beverages
Bottling and Carbonation
Starter: Wild Fermentation
Strawberry Kvass
Starter: Ginger Bug
Ginger Beer
Starter: Whey
Sweet Potato Fly
Starter: Kombucha
Kombucha Soda: Secondary Fermentation
Starter: Water Kefir
Grape Water Kefir Soda
Persimmon Water Kefir Soda
Starter: Yeast
Rosy Raspberry Soda
Mock Dry Champagne
7. Dairy Ferments (and Vegan Alternatives)
Yogurt
Labneh (Yogurt Cheese)
Savory Yogurt Sauces: Raita and Tsatsiki
Kishk
Doogh (Persian Yogurt Soda)
Kefir
Buttermilk
Cheesemaking
Farmer Cheese
Paneer
Rennet
Chèvre
Pinkie’s Basic Rennet Cheese
Feta Cheese
Ricotta Cheese
Vegan Adaptations
Pepita Seed Milk and Kefir
Non-Dairy Yogurt
Sunflower Sour Cream
8. Grain Ferments (Porridges, Soft Drinks, Soups, Flatbreads, and Breads)
Soaking
Oat Porridge
Ogi (African Millet Porridge)
Gv-No-He-Nv (Cherokee Sour Corn Drink)
Corn and Nixtamalization
Injera (Ethiopian Sponge Bread)
Groundnut (Peanut) Sweet Potato Stew
Infinite Buckwheat Bread (and Pancakes)
Yeast and Natural Leavening
Starting and Maintaining a Sourdough Starter
Savory Vegetable Sourdough Pancakes
Alaskan Frontier Sourdough Hotcakes
Kvass
Okroshka (Kvass-Based Soup)
Zur
Baking Bread
Recycled Grain Bread
All-Rye Bread
Sonnenblumenkernbrot (German Sunflower Seed Bread)
Challah
Afghan Bread
Buckwheat Rye Sourdough Crackers
Amazaké
Rejuvelac
9. Bean Ferments
Dosas and Idlis
Coconut Chutney
Sambar
Miso
Sweet Miso
Red Miso
Miso Soup
Miso-Tahini Spread
Miso Pickles and Tamari
Tempeh
Soy Tempeh
Black-Eyed Pea and Oat Tempeh
Sweet and Spicy Glazed Tempeh with Broccoli and Daikon
Tempeh Reuben Sandwiches
10. Wines (Including Mead, Cider, and Other Alcoholic Beverages Made from Simple Sugars)
T’ej (Ethiopian-Style Mead or Honey Wine)
Herbal Mead (Metheglin)
Spontaneous Wine or Cider
Carboys and Air Locks
Aging: Siphoning and Bottling
Bottling Alcohol for Carbonation
Cider Take Two
Country Wine
Strawberry Wine
Elderberry Wine
Flower Wines
Ginger Champagne
Wine Dregs Soup
11. Beers
Chicha (Andean Chewed-Corn Beer)
Rice Beer
Sprouting Grains
Bouza (Egyptian Beer)
African Sorghum Beer
Tesgüino
12. Vinegars
Banana Vinegar
Wine Vinegar
Apple Cider Vinegar
Vinagre de Piña (Mexican Pineapple Vinegar)
Shrub
Fruit Scrap Vinegar
Switchel
Horseradish Sauce
Infused Vinegars
Vinegar Pickling: Dilly Beans
Vinaigrette
13. Cultural Reincarnation: Fermentation in the Cycles of Life, Soil Fertility, and Social Change
Appendix. Cultural Resources
Notes
Image Credits
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