Every year Saveur magazine has a list of 100 “favorite people, places, and things.” This year’s list is the “home cook edition” — meaning related to home cooking. Only one entry is about fermented food: making wine vinegar, which takes 2 months.
Given that there are hundreds of fermented foods, many much easier to make, this is unfortunate — just as bad as Paul Goldberger, the New Yorker‘s architecture critic, ignoring green buildings on his list of the top ten buildings of 2008. (A museum with a garden on its roof doesn’t count. Green building is about better houses and businesses.)