ONLINE EVENT
In Our Fermented Lives, food historian and fermenting expert Julia Skinner explores the fascinating roots of a wide range of fermented foods in cultures around the world, with a focus on the many intersections fermented foods have with human history and culture, from the evolution of the microbiome to food preservation techniques, distinctive flavor profiles around the globe, and the building of community.
In celebration of Skinner’s new book, MOFAD is thrilled to welcome Dr. Julia Skinner and world-renowned fermentation revitalist Sandor Katz for a virtual conversation about fermentations influence on our past, present, and future.
Envisioning fermentation as a living tradition with deep roots in every human culture, Katz and Skinner will dive in and explore the ways fermentation has shaped our cuisines and communities, and how we can pull from and document these traditions in the present in order to carry them forward into the future.
Tickets include the option to purchase Our Fermented Lives by Julia Skinner *shipped to your door by Kitchen Arts & Letters in New York City. *US only
photo by Patricia Niven
SANDOR KATZ
Sandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, his explorations in fermentation developed out of his overlapping interests in cooking, nutrition, and gardening. He is the author of four previous books: Wild Fermentation, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, The Art of Fermentation—which was a New York Times bestseller and won a James Beard Foundation Award—and Fermentation as Metaphor. The hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world have helped catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. The New York Times calls Sandor “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.”
For more information, check out his website: www.wildfermentation.com.
JULIA SKINNER
Julia Skinner is founder and director of Root, a fermentation and food history company that bridges the gap between modern people and historic food. She is the first food writer to be awarded two 40 Under 40 awards in the same year. Her work has been featured in Vox, Eater, Business Insider, and Buzzfeed, and she is the author of Afternoon Tea: A History (Rowman & Littlefield).
She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
KITCHEN ARTS & LETTERS
Kitchen Arts & Letters is a bookstore devoted to food and drink, with titles imported from around the world. They emphasize works on food culture and innovation.