Food Fermentation for Beginners by Samantha Stewart

If you have ever wished that you could somehow have all of summertime's vast range of tasty and colorful vegetables for your table year-round, you actually can! This is a beginner's guide for countertop fermentation of vegetables of all types. Contrary to canning, which requires heating and cooking foods to preserve them for a long period of time, countertop fermentation keeps your garden fresh vegetables in and an enhanced raw state. Enhanced? Yes, fermentation enhances probiotic content, creating more gut- and immune-health benefits for you from your vegetables.
In this book, you will learn:

the health benefits from your countertop fermented vegetables

what you need to easily start fermenting raw, garden-fresh vegetables today

how to know when the fermentation process is complete

a little bit about the science behind fermentation

a few basic recipes for fermenting vegetables with herbs and spices to get you started