Fans of Fermentation

From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Length: 04:00

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Aired 2/25/11 on Boise State Public Radio

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Fans of Fermentation
Edible Idaho Feature: 0225GH_Fermentation.wav Feature 4:00 02/25/11 GH/
[HOST INTRO] I’m Guy Hand and this is Edible Idaho, celebrating 2011: The Year of Idaho Food.. (4:00 to end)
[SCRIPT]
Hand: I don’t know much about the ancient art of fermenting food. I have heard it’s growing in popularity among the do-it-yourself foodie set.
Tara: Hi Guy. Nice to meet you . . .
Hand: I don’t know Tara Kelly either. But she’s an avid fermenter and she’d offered to show me her work.
Tara: Alright, so this is my fermentation station . . .
Hand: By that, she means her bright suburban kitchen.
Tara: I pulled out all my ferments for you and I thought we can go through them and taste them all.
Hand: I’m not quite prepared for the dozens of jars filled with mysterious liquids that cover a whole counter top in this otherwise normal looking home.
Tara: These are most of the...
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