WHAAAAAT? After a season sabbatical from hosting the show, Mary and Chris return to Fuhmentaboudit! with the tables turned! Guest host, Heather McReynolds, joins co-host Rachel Jacobs to interview them about all things Fifth Hammer Brewing Company and its first year. Mary and Chris speak to the neighborhood of Long...

Highlights from the second-ever New York Fermentation Festival on February 24 at the Brooklyn Expo Center! We interview fermenters from all walks and corners, from local breweries to start-up krauts, kombuchas big and small. Meet the largest collection of meaderies in one place in New York, and go on a...

Invited by the Culinary Institute of America, a gaggle of HRN hosts journeyed North to visit the Hyde Park NY campus and interview the people that make them awesome. In this episode, Chris speaks with Hutch Kugeman and John Fischer about the ins and outs of their hands on brewing...

Jason Synan and Aiyana Knauer join us in the studio tonight. We chat about creating balanced sour beers at Hudson Valley Brewery and what it's like to work at two of the best bars in America.

Miso kimchi? Black radishes? Purple Kombucha? In this episode, Rachel navigates the Baltimore fermentation scene with founders and fermenters at Hex Ferments, Maryland-based food alchemists, dedicated to sourcing from local and organic farmers. They talk about their journey as artists into the world of krauts, kimchi, and kombucha, and their...

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway speaks with Sandor Katz, author of "the book that started the fermentation revolution," Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods. Since its publication in 2003, and aided by Katz’s engaging and fervent workshop presentations, Wild Fermentation has inspired...

Staten Island’s homebrew club, Pour Standards, have challenged their members to brew outside the box…outside boxes of cereal that is! From Lucky Charms, Oatmeal, Cookie Crisp, Grape Nuts, Apple Jacks and beyond, their members pulled delicious beers from skill and ingenuity. Hear here how they formulated and executed the fun...

This week on Feast Yr Ears – Jeremy Umansky loves fermenting, foraging and the freedom that comes from wrangling tiny bacteria and yeast to transform food into things we can only dream of. His soon to open deli, Larder: A Curated Delicatessen Bakery will be taking Cleveland by storm...

On this week's episode of Cooking Issues, Dave speaks with Richard Wrangham, a British primatologist. Wrangham is co-director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, the long-term study of the Kanyawara chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda. He is known predominantly for his work in the ecology of primate social systems, the...

This week on Japan Eats, host Akiko Katayama is in studio with author, cook, and farmer, Nancy Singleton Hachisu. Leaving California for Japan in the late 1980's, fully intending to learn Japanese in one year and return to the States for graduate school, Nancy shares how she instead fell in...