Fermenting Stories that Connect Us All

Fermentation is a magical bridge, linking people and plants with the tiny wild invisible microbes that transform vegetables into flavors we love.

Sandor Katz’s Kraut-chi Recipe

Crunchy Vegetables
Kimchi and sauerkraut are delicious ways we love eating vegetables.

Water + Salt
The original meaning of kim-chi (김치 gim-chi) is “brined vegetables.” Kim (김 gim) is Korean for “immersed” in the ocean, and chi (치 chi) is Korean for “vegetables.”

Dazzle
In German, sauer means “sour” and kraut means “vegetables that grow above ground.” Both sauer-kraut and kim-chi mean “fermented vegetables,” but kim-chi adds more dazzling umami: garlic, ginger, gochugaru, shrimp paste and more. Sandor calls sauerkraut with kimchi dazzle, kraut-chi.

Tiny Wild + Time
Fermentation reminds us that we are always changing, adding back, not just taking, kraut-chi-ing our way.

Take Home

• Jar of delicious kraut-chi

• Kraut-chi recipe

• One more joyful way to love vegetables

• Deeper connection to yourself and others