Your Grandmother’s Root Cellar as a Microbiome Library
A properly built root cellar can hold steady in the low 40s in winter and the mid 50s in summer, even when it’s 90 degrees outside. I’ve measured that swing…
Fermentation & Fermented Foods
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Raw Honey and Unpasteurized Ferments: What Industrial Food Processing Strips Away
Raw honey unpasteurized benefits are real, but the gap between supermarket honey and hive-fresh honey is wider than most shoppers realize. Industrial pasteurization at 165F doesn’t even eliminate botulism spores…
Fermented & Alkalized Corn Traditions Across the Americas: Nixtamalization, Chicha, and Pozol
Untreated field corn passes through human digestion with its most vital nutrients chemically locked away. Simmering dried kernels in an alkaline mineral solution frees bound vitamin B3, balances amino acids,…