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    Food Fermentation for Beginners: Step-by-Step Fermentation Guide for Tasty Vegetables Year-Round: Fermentation Guide
    Food Fermentation for Beginners: Step-by-Step Fermentation Guide for Tasty Vegetables Year-Round: Fermentation Guide
    Food Fermentation for Beginners: Step-by-Step Fermentation Guide for Tasty Vegetables Year-Round: Fermentation Guide
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    Food Fermentation for Beginners: Step-by-Step Fermentation Guide for Tasty Vegetables Year-Round: Fermentation Guide

    By Samantha Stewart

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    If you have ever wished that you could somehow have all of summertime’s vast range of tasty and colorful vegetables for your table year-round, you actually can! This is a beginner’s guide for countertop fermentation of vegetables of all types. Contrary to canning, which requires heating and cooking foods to preserve them for a long period of time, countertop fermentation keeps your garden fresh vegetables in and an enhanced raw state. Enhanced? Yes, fermentation enhances probiotic content, creating more gut- and immune-health benefits for you from your vegetables.

    In this book, you will learn:

    • the health benefits from your countertop fermented vegetables
    • what you need to easily start fermenting raw, garden-fresh vegetables today
    • how to know when the fermentation process is complete
    • a little bit about the science behind fermentation
    • a few basic recipes for fermenting vegetables with herbs and spices to get you started
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuava Books
    Release dateFeb 3, 2017
    ISBN9781540166746
    Food Fermentation for Beginners: Step-by-Step Fermentation Guide for Tasty Vegetables Year-Round: Fermentation Guide

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      Food Fermentation for Beginners - Samantha Stewart

      Introduction

      Whether you have made a personal or family decision to improve your health, or you are just an avid cook looking for new types of food to serve your household – learning how to ferment vegetables on your kitchen countertop may be your solution to both searches.

      Do you love going to the Farmers’ Market, with all the colorful seasonal vegetables and produce? Have you started a kitchen garden of favorite vegetables and herbs? If you're like many people, you wish you could have all of this colorful and tasty range of vegetables and fruits year-round – not just when harvest time is here.

      You can join what millions of people over human history have done to fulfill that wish: you can ferment your own foods at home. Fermenting vegetables in particular in your own kitchen is easy to do, requires very little equipment, and here's the best part – it doesn't require any cooking.

      Think of your grandmother’s refrigerator pickles. Those refrigerator pickles are an example of a simple fermented food. You are not quite sure whether they are raw or not, because they taste like they are just out of the garden. They are crunchy, a bit sour and a bit salty. And although your grandmother probably never told you this – they only took about three or four days to make, right on her countertop!

      Think of sauerkraut, which is a staple not only in Europe, but in North America. It is also a fairly simple

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