NTI PodTalk with Sandor Katz

In today’s episode of the NTI PodTalk, Dianne interviews Sandor Ellix Katz, a fermentation revivalist. His books Wild Fermentation and the Art of Fermentation, along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, the New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” Sandor is the recipient of a James Beard award and other honors. For more information, check out his website wildfermentation.com.

In this episode Sandor Katz and Dianne discuss:

02:20 – Sandor Katz as the “populizer of fermentation”
03:15 – How Sandor came to fermentation
06:21 – Fermentation disappeared from our kitchens and “the war on bacteria”
07:25 – How Sandor is devoted to demystifying the process of fermentation
09:45 – Practical and nutritional benefits of fermented foods
20:38 – How probiotic foods improve digestion
22:00 – Why Sandor wrote the book Wild Fermentation
27:40 – Sandor’s other books- The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements, The Art of Fermentation, and Sandor Katz’s Fermentation Journeys: Recipes, Techniques, and Traditions from around the World
29:26 – Interesting learnings about fermentation from other cultures
33:44 – Fermentation equipment options
36:04 – The basic fermenting equipment needed to get started
37:47 – The purpose of using salt in the fermentation of vegetables
40:07 – How do you make fermented foods to fit your palate and preferences?
44:42 – Starters for fermentation
50:15 – Fermentation as Metaphor

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Other episodes of the NTI PodTalk that feature experts in the food world:

Jennifer Peters, Owner of Just Be Kitchen

Adrienne Larrew, Co-founder of Corner Post Meats

Julie Ebert, Co-owner of Ebert Family Farms

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