All posts tagged: fermentation

fermented dill pickles

lacto-fermented dill pickles

Published by Jess

This isn’t a recipe for sweet bread and butter pickles that you pile onto your summer burger. These pickles are something quite different. These pickles are alive. Lacto-fermented for a week in brine heavily seasoned with garlic and flowering dill, simple Kirby cucumbers transform into crisp, sour pickles, filled with beneficial bacteria that improve digestion and […]

making sauerkraut

fermented ginger carrot pickle

Published by Jess

The question of privilege, of who can afford this food, is a conversation that is typically subsumed by nice lighting and organic-la-di-da in food blog culture. We like to fantasize about the meal, the community, and spaces that are not our own but could be (myself included). It’s fun, right? Sure, until feelings of inadequacy […]