Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee. Chocolate. Most people consume fermented foods & drinks every day. For thousands of years humans have enjoyed the distinctive flavors & nutrition resulting from the transformative power of microscopic bacteria & fungi. Wild Fermentation: The Flavor Nutrition & Craft of Live-Culture Foods is the first cookbook to widely explore the culinary magic of fermentation. Fermentation has been an important journey of discovery for me " writes author Sandor Ellix Katz. "I invite you to join me along this effervescent path well trodden for thousands of years yet largely forgotten in our time & place bypassed by the superhighway of industrial food production." The flavours of fermentation are compelling & complex quite literally alive. This book takes readers on a whirlwind trip through the wide world of fermentation providing readers with basic & delicious recipes-some familiar others exotic-that are easy to make at home."