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Ageing Gracefully: Fermented Vegetables

Kate Hart, 13.09.2021

Fermentation not only preserves food, it also gives it an irresistible umami taste over time. But why?

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What do top chefs do when a vegetable tastes too bland? They ferment it. "If you only have one broccoli, how do you make it delicious? So that someone eats it and there's nothing wrong with it? You start fermenting it. Then it becomes different, crunchy, exciting, super tasty," says Philipp Inreiter, who has worked at Noma, Relae and Eleven Madison Park and has just opened his first restaurant, Slurp Rame in Copenhagen.

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