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Eating cultured
The project aims at exploring our relation to nourishment, by enabling individuals and communities to explore, adapt, and together create fermented food systems through modular components, microbial ecologies, and cultural practices.
Duration: 1 January 2025 – ongoing
Author: Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Keywords: fermentation, nourshiment, microbiome, food culture

Bibliography and Reading

This reading list gathers foundational works on fermentation, microbial ecology and the cultural practices that frame our relationship with living foods. It combines practical guides, scientific reviews and ethnographic studies to support ongoing inquiry into co-creative, ecological approaches to nourishment. New sources will be added as we deepen our understanding of modular systems, community protocols and the role of microbes in design.

  • Hutkins, R.W. 2018, Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods, 2nd edn, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ.
  • Katz, S.E. 2012, The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT.
  • Katz, S.E. 2020, Fermentation as Metaphor, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT.
  • Kurlansky, M. 2002, Salt: A World History, Walker & Company, New York, NY.
  • Marco, M.L., Heeney, D., Binda, S., Cifelli, C.J., Cotter, P.D., Foligné, B. et al. 2017, ‘Health benefits of fermented foods: microbiota and beyond’, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, vol. 44, pp. 94–102.
  • Nestle, M. 2006, What to Eat, North Point Press, New York, NY.
  • Zilber, D. & Redzepi, R. 2018, The Noma Guide to Fermentation, Artisan (Workman Publishing), New York, NY.

Images

A list of images from the project.

Microbial cultures
Fermented Asparagus and Brussels Sprout Kimchi
Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
probiotic foods
lacto-fermentation
fermented vegetables
gut microbiome
6 February 2022
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A pair of ferments in glass jar: on the left, Brussels sprouts kimchi with red onion, garlic, apple, nuts, and shoyu; on the right, white asparagus with lemon and Sichuan pepper.