Fermenting food is a process, and it all begins with the right vessel. Food & Wine / Amazon Fermentation requires very little equipment to get started, but a crock or a jar is essential.

Melissa Perello is the executive chef at Octavia and Frances, in San Francisco. When we were in the process of opening Octavia, I met Berkeley-based pottery artist Sarah Kersten at a flea market event ...

Chefs and home baker’s wishing to start baking their own sourdough might be interested in a new Sourdough fermentation jar starter kit created by Borgla and launched via Indiegogo this month. The ...

I came to fermenting relatively recently in my cooking career but took to it with relish. How did I not know how to do this? Who doesn't love a good pickle? Are you, like me, regularly caught by your ...

The fermented spicy cabbage known as kimchi is a staple of Korean cuisine, traditionally made in earthenware vessels known as onggi. These days most Korean households have kimchi refrigerators for ...

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 ...