"In Live Bacteria, Food Makers See a Bonanza"
New York Times article, January 22, 2007
A Brief History of Fermentation, East and West
By William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi from their unpublished manuscript, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods: 1100 B.C. to the 1980s
A Brief Study of Plastic Food Containers
By mycologist and food investigator Alan Muskat
Fermenting Culture
A 3-minute video, featuring Sandorkraut (among others), produced by Lisa Biagiotti and Lizzie Stark.
Fermenting is Fun
From The Healing Crow.
G.E.M. Cultures
A small, family-run business in Fort Bragg, California, with the best variety of food fermentation cultures available in the U.S., including kefir grains, koji, kombucha mothers, tempeh starter, and more obscure cultures such as Viili and Fil Mjolk.
Gut Microflora: The Inside Story
From the European Food Information Council
Lacto-Fermentation
From the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Lactobacillus
Information on this health-promoting microorganism from the Virtual Bacteria Museum.
MicroAngela
Gallery of electron microscopy images, including bacteria and other fermentation organisms.
Microbes.info
"The microbiology information portal" including food microbiology links.
Microbial Nutrition
Yahoo group devoted to "fermented foods, probiotics, and gut health."
The Economics of Fermentation
An essay by Charles Eisenstein, which originally appeared in Wise Traditions Magazine.
The Gordon Lab
The home page of Jeffrey Gordon, Director of Wasington University's Center for Genome Sciences, who begins the page: "Symbiotic or mutually beneficial relationships between microbes and animals are a dominant theme of life on our microbe-dominated planet.
The Sounds of Yeast
An NPR report on new research which has yielded recordings of the sounds of yeast reproducing at different temperatures.
Tribe.net Fermentation Tribes
Other related tribes include Food Traditions and Food Rituals tribe http://tribes.tribe.net/foodtraditions; Food geeks http://foodgeeks.tribe.net; Sauerkraut http://sauerkrautsluts.tribe.net/.
Wild Fermentation Google Group
A web-based group about wild fermentation, started by Jay Bazuzi