Sandor Katz Quotes

• We reject certain food because it is rotten. Certain food we can see is fresh. But there is this creative space between fresh food and rotten food where most of human culture's most prized delicacies and culinary achievements exist.

  Sandor Katz

  Creative Space, Achievement, Culture

  "'Fermentation': When Food Goes Bad But Stays Good". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 13, 2012.

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• Wild foods, microbial cultures included, possess a great, unmediated life force, which can help us adapt to shifting conditions and lower our susceptibility to disease. These microorganisms are everywhere, and the techniques for fermenting with them are simple and flexible.

  Sandor Katz

  Simple, Technique, Culture

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• To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

  Sandor Katz

  War, Ninety Nine, Bacteria

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• Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together as a 'war on bacteria,' if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won't effectively get nutrients out of the food we're eating.

  Sandor Katz

  War, Water, Drug

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