Fermentation Festivals and Book Launches! Save the Date

Mark your calendars!

• Boston Fermentation Festival, Sunday August 27
• Farm to Fermentation Festival, Saturday September 2, in Petaluma, California

If you see me there, you will notice that I have written a new book, with coauthor Raquel Guajardo from Monterrey, Mexico!

More details to come.

Boston Fermentation Festival! FREE! Aug 28 2016 10am-4pm at the Boston Public Market

Combining several of my favorite things! Fermentation, Boston, Boston Public Market, books, people.

I'll be signing books and helping keep order.

Lots of other book-signers, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors, etc.

We are working out how to live-stream it. Ideally I will put a live feed on this page.

Suitable for kids of all ages!

And FREE! As in "free beer" AND "free speech".

For more info: http://www.bostonferments.com/#!2016-festival/dzg2z

Santa Rosa, California, and Beyond: My 2015 Fall Events

Here's what I have so far for this late summer/fall:

• Saturday August 22 2015 (soon!), 11AM-5PM: I will doing a beet kvass demo at the Farm to Fermentation Festival in Santa Rosa, California. (See recipe here.)
• Sunday October 4 2015, 10AM-4PM: I've helped organize the Boston Fermentation Festival at the fabulous new Boston Public Market.
• Sunday October 25 2015: My talk is called "Fermentation 101 + Understanding Science in the Media". Huge topics--I'll have to talk fast! At the Austin Fermentation Festival in Austin, Texas.

Come find me at any of these events!

Upcoming Events: Farm to Fermentation Festival, WAPF Massachusetts Conference, Boston Fermentation Festival

I have three very exciting speaking engagements coming up this summer and fall.

First, on August 24, is the Farm to Fermentation Festival, an annual event in Santa Rosa, California, 60 miles north of San Francisco. I believe it was at this festival a few years ago that Michael Pollan and Sandor Katz started talking about working together, which laid the groundwork for Pollan's book, "Cooked". Who knows what propitious meetings might occur this year?

I'd encourage SF Bay Area folks interested in pickles, cheese, or beer to come to this event. (Doesn't that cover just about everyone?) I can't wait for the "Cheese and Beverage Pairing" talk, myself. The whole event will be fun and educational. Here's the lineup of speakers. If you use the special discount code "pickle", you can save $5 off admission.

Next, on September 20, I will be speaking at the the Weston A. Price Foundation Massachusetts regional conference in Southbridge, 60 miles west of Boston. For anyone who has been to a WAPF conference, you know how awesome the conferences are. And for anyone who hasn't, you have something great to look forward to. And the food is the best conference food you will ever find.

Finally, on September 27 in Boston, I will be speaking at the Boston Fermentation Festival. Last year's Festival was a real coming-together of the Boston fermenting community, bringing in more than 1000 people over the course of the day. This year should be even more popular and awesome. Sandor Katz is headlining. I'm thrilled to be a part of it!

Please post in the comments section if you have any questions.

Boston Fermented Dinner And Drink Pairing Pop-Up, Monday June 16

Boston-area fermentos Geoffrey Lukas (of Sofra) and Jeremy Ogusky (of Boston Ferments and Ogusky Ceramics) have teamed up to offer a Fermented Dinner and Drink Pairing, at City Girl Café in Inman Square on Monday June 16. Details are here and here. It will be fabulous, and some of the proceeds will go to support the Boston Fermentation Festival in September. And all attendees will get a commemorative hand-made ceramic cup!

Again, details here and here.

Sign up now before all the tickets are gone!

And if you're not around Boston and/or you can't make it, please draw inspiration from the menu, and think about what kind of fermented events might work where you live...