Sandor Katz and the Tiny Wild

Chopper's Choice!Welcome to Sandy's no-desk, new ways school!There are no tests, no rules. Here in Middle Tennessee, the room is filled with jars, cutting boards, salt. And, of course, cabbages and cucumbers, covered with the Tiny Wildinvisible microbes that change cucumbers into crunchy pickles, cabbages into zingy zangy kraut-chi. When Sandy was a young man, a mysterious new virus changed his life. He discovered fermentation as a way to share his love of good food, plants, the Tiny Wildthrough no-heat cooking. Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee, the award-winning authors of Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix, tells the story of Sandor Ellix Katz, the "fermentation revivalist," on his journey of transformation and how fermentation connects all, ALL of us on planet Earth.