Lacto-fermentation is a healthful process that pre-digests food and introduces naturally occurring probiotics into your diet.

Lacto-fermentation is a method of food procressing. It uses good bacteria, fungi, or yeasts to give food a different aroma, flavor, or texture and extend shelf life. Fermentation is one of the oldest ...

Two home cooks have used social media to showcase their paocai, Szechuan pickles that are lacto-fermented in a water-sealed jar. The lacto-fermentation process creates a self-sustaining microbial ...

When Maddie Elling, of Hosta Hill in West Stockbridge, says that she and partner Abe Hunrichs “caught the fermentation bug,” she doesn’t mean to make a pun. But Elling and Hunrichs have created an ...

To health coach Sue Whitney, canning summer’s extra bounty isn’t really preserving it. Though home-canned food will be edible weeks or months away, Whitney doesn’t like the idea of cooking fresh ...

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, the word “fermented” prompted scrunched noses, sickly frowns and gagging. Synonyms might as well have been “putrid” or “gross” — conjuring old, decaying food ...

As the last jars of fermented hot sauce from the last season come to an end I feel compelled to share the successes and failures in the hopes that readers that have not already, will do some ...