To celebrate Super Bowl 50, we’vepartnered with Taste of the NFL and their chef partners all season long. The charity helps to raise awareness and funds via the season-long Kick Hunger Challenge. For ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Microbes have gotten a bad rap. Sure, they’re at the center of the Zombie Apocalypse, but not all microbes are bad. Some, in fact, are very, very good. Like those we use to preserve food, making it ...

Great tasting raw sauerkraut is not hard to find in grocery stores in the Bay Area, and store-bought ‘kraut is a perfect choice for a last-minute fermented cabbage emergency. (Hey, you don’t have ...

California Live’s Jessica Vilchis explores the wonderful world of fermentation with a homemade sauerkraut recipe from chef and foodie creator Brad Leone. Plus, the best-selling author talks about his ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For those with the time and inclination for home pickling, making your own sauerkraut can be a delightful culinary experiment — provided you ...

When you grow up in a family with Polish-German roots, sauerkraut is a birthright. From the time I was young, it was on the family menu. One of my simple favorites was a big pot of sauerkraut with hot ...

Everyone should be making their own homemade sauerkraut. Not only do you get all the benefits of those fermentation-induced probiotics, but you ditch all the preservatives from canned and jarred ...

Because cabbage is one of those vegetables that can withstand light frost, I often leave part of my crop in the garden until the very end. By that time, most of my largest and best heads of cabbage ...