Fermenting ─ Recipes & Preparation

This beautifully illustrated new cookbook will not only inspire you to try new foods and recipes, it will show you how foods can actively foster a healthier body, encouraging a balanced digestive system and healthy gut. A fascinating discussion of the history, benefits, techniques and tools needed for fermenting, is followed by basic recipes that use age-old methods to culture healthy bacteria to create essential classic ferments such as sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt and sourdough. The book then goes on to provide further recipes for salads and pickles, drinks and smoothies, soups, main dishes, and breads and treats. Whether it's a super probiotic Cucumber & Kefir Smoothie, a delicious Broccoli Miso Soup or tempting Buckwheat Pancakes, the ancient wisdom of fermented foods from around the world will delight your tastebuds and tummy!

Daphne Lambert has cooked, studied, taught and written about food all her adult life. She was the co-owner and chef of a multi-award winning organic restaurant. Daphne has regularly contributed recipes and articles to numerous books and magazines and is the author of three books on food and health. She has run a nutritional consultancy practice for 25 years looking at ways to nourish wellbeing and is the founding member of Greencuisine Trust, an educational charity, where she brings her passion for food that truly nourishes, body, mind and soul to her work as a nutritionist and educator.