The Art of Fermentation

Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published.

In this New York Times bestseller, Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners.

Cows Save the Planet

Journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems -- climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity -- our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.