Ari LeVaux

Society

Embracing the deliciousness of fermented foods means calling truce in our war on bacteria

Letting food sit at room temperature and become colonized by airborne microorganisms runs counter to everything we’re taught about food safety. But without this guided decomposition that we call fermentation there would be no bread, cheese, tequila, or kimchee.

August 9, 2012

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