With her new book, “Ferment Your Vegetables” (Quarto Publishing Group), Philly-based author Amanda Feifer helps familiarize today’s home cooks with an age-old food preservation method. Feifer contends ...

The bounty of crisp, bright vegetables at the farmer’s market or in your garden makes it easy to feel inspired to jump into the kitchen. Fermenting veggies is healthy, easy, and delicious, but it also ...

How Fermented, Pickles , Can Improve Your Health. 'Time' recently offered readers a guide to fermented pickles and how to get ...

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 ...

It's no secret that what you eat significantly impacts your health. The Western diet, often characterized by high levels of ultra-processed foods, added sugars and unhealthy fats, has long been linked ...

A mason jar packed with cultured or fermented vegetables at your local urban provisions shop will likely set you back $10 to $15. Given that the time and materials involved are no more than five ...

Fermented foods such as kimchi and pickles are great for supporting the gut microbiome, the trillions of microbes that help shape our health. Made when live bacteria or yeast are added to ingredients ...

These days, you can't throw a mason jar without hitting an artisanal pickle maker... or kombucha maker... or kimchi maker. As hipsters proliferate, so does the research on the health benefits of ...

Gut microbiota is essential to induction and activity of adaptive and innate immune responses. Dysbiosis causes an imbalance of pathogenic and commensal bacteria in the gut, producing microbial ...

Putney - In many countries, neighbors come together to harvest and process the fruits and vegetables of their labors. This tradition is alive and well in the hills of Vermont. There's a neighborhood ...

Fermented foods are said to be the healthiest in the world. According to some sources, the earliest recorded history of fermentation dates as far back as 6000 B.C. There were many reasons for these ...

From fiber-packed beans to probiotic-rich yogurt and kefir, these dietitian-approved packaged snacks make supporting gut ...