Speakers at Connecting For Change (2012)
Sandor Ellix Katz is a self-taught fermentation experimentalist who wrote the book “Wild Fermentation” in order to share the fermentation wisdom he had learned, and demystify home fermentation. Since the book’s publication in 2003, Katz has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops across North America and beyond, taking on a role he describes as a “fermentation revivalist.” Through these workshops, Katz met many different food activists—varied in their specific projects but united by a passion to bring food back to earth—who inspired him to write “The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved”. Newsweek called Wild Fermentation “the fermenting bible,” while the New Yorker wrote that Katz’s books “have become manifestos and how-to manuals for a generation of underground food activists.” His latest book is “The Art of Fermentation”, (Chelsea Green, 2012).
http://www.marioninstitute.org/connecting-for-change/events/sandor-katz
www.wildfermentation.com
Sandor speaks with Joanna about reclaiming homemade fermentation; mental health and the gut bacteria; fermentation: survival practice; fermentation and grassroots food activism; “bacteria are our ancestors”… 13:48
original music by Evarusnik
