Fermentation as Metaphor (Audiobook)

Follow Up to the Bestselling “The Art of Fermentation”

9781645020233
Duration:2 hours, 14 minutes
Publisher:Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date: October 15, 2020
ISBN: 9781645020233

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Fermentation as Metaphor (Audiobook)

Follow Up to the Bestselling “The Art of Fermentation”

Narrated by Sandor Ellix Katz
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Bestselling author Sandor Katz–an “unlikely rock star of the American food scene” (New York Times) with over 500,000 books sold–gets personal about the deeper meaning of fermentation.

In 2012, Sandor Ellix Katz published The Art of Fermentation, which quickly became the bible for foodies around the world, a runaway bestseller, and a James Beard Book Award winner. Since then his work has gone on to inspire countless professionals and home cooks worldwide, bringing fermentation into the mainstream.

In Fermentation as Metaphor, stemming from his personal obsession with all things fermented, Katz meditates on his art and work, drawing connections between microbial communities and aspects of human culture: politics, religion, social and cultural movements, art, music, sexuality, identity, and even our individual thoughts and feelings. He informs his arguments with his vast knowledge of the fermentation process, which he describes as a slow, gentle, steady, yet unstoppable force for change.

This audio edition of Fermentation as Metaphor offers 45 minutes of bonus content in the form of an exclusive interview between Sandor Ellix Katz and Jeff Gordinier, food & drinks editor of Esquire magazine and the author of Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World.

In addition to this exclusive interview is a sample of the 50 mesmerizing, original images of otherworldly beings from an unseen universe – images of fermented foods and beverages that Katz has photographed using both a stereoscope and electron microscope – exalting microbial life from the level of “germs” to that of high art. When you see the raw beauty and complexity of microbial structures, Katz says, they will take you “far from absolute boundaries and rigid categories. They force us to reconceptualize. They make us ferment”. These images are available in the included supplementary material.

 

Reviews and Praise

  • ‘…the guru of food fermentation strikes again.’

    –Financial Times


More Reviews and Praise


  • Fermentation as Metaphor is audacious, often surprising.’

    –Observer

  • Booklist

    “Having written his comprehensive guide to all things fermented, The Art of Fermentation (2012) Katz turns philosophical, trying to find deeper meanings in what the physical nature of fermentation means in the wider culture.”



Reviews and Praise

  • ‘…the guru of food fermentation strikes again.’

    –Financial Times

More Reviews and Praise
  • Fermentation as Metaphor is audacious, often surprising.’

    –Observer

  • Booklist

    “Having written his comprehensive guide to all things fermented, The Art of Fermentation (2012) Katz turns philosophical, trying to find deeper meanings in what the physical nature of fermentation means in the wider culture.”


About Sandor Ellix Katz

Sandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, his explorations in fermentation developed out of his overlapping interests in cooking, nutrition, and gardening. He is the author of four previous books: Wild Fermentation, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, The Art of Fermentation—which won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2013—and Fermentation as Metaphor. The hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world have helped catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. The New York Times calls Sandor “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” For more information, check out his website: www.wildfermentation.com.

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