Imagine life without yoghurt, vinegar, cheese, wine or beer (or amasi in South Africa). These and many more foods and beverages would not be part of our lives without the process of fermentation.

For more than six thousand years, mankind has been using fermentation to prepare food and drinks, and still fermented dairy products and other fermented foods are widely consumed for their high ...

Few kitchen staples can be stretched as far as the humble pail of milk. Collected from the source, it translates into a plethora of SA icons including amasi, milk tart, buttermilk rusks and, of course ...

We will make several fermented dairy products along the way as we learn about the various aspects that influence milk’s fermentation, including Dickmilch, Kefir, Amasi (a milk beer from Africa), ...