#255 The benefits of Fermenting Vegetables with Kirsten Shockey
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We have the pleasure of hosting Kirsten Shockey in the kitchen studio and on the podcast today, author of the best-selling Fermented Vegetables that was re-released for it’s 10 year anniversary in April 2024
Kirsten and her partner got into fermenting foods over twenty-four years ago on 40 acres of wooded hillside which grew into their organic food company. Kirsten realised that her passion lay in the desire to both teach people how to ferment and push this culinary art to new flavours.
She now leads experiential workshops worldwide and online helping people to make, enjoy and connect with their food through fermentation at The Fermentation School a women-owned and women-led benefits corporation supporting the voices of independent educators to empower learning and build culture. She can also be found musing at fermentingchange.substack.com.
We talk about the simplest way to ferment foods, the benefits to our health, how it saves food waste as well as how easy it is. I’ve never been a confident fermenter by Kirsten really did make it easy for the team and I.
We also talk about some unusual fermented foods like natto and tempeh and why those have incredible benefits.
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| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen Podcast. |
| 0:30.6 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor. I study Dr. Rupi your host. I'm a medical doctor I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:52.2 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows |
| 0:57.4 | you to lead your best life. We have the absolute pleasure of hosting Kirsten Schocky in the kitchen studio and on the |
| 1:11.2 | podcast today. She is the author of the best-selling |
| 1:14.8 | fermented vegetables that was re-released for its 10-year anniversary in April |
| 1:19.6 | 2024 if you haven't heard of fermented vegetables the the book, you've got to get it. It is the ultimate book on |
| 1:26.9 | fermenting foods. I've learned so much from flicking through the pages of this manual. |
| 1:33.0 | And Kirsten and her partner got into fermenting foods |
| 1:35.8 | well over 24 years ago, or 40 acres of wooded hillside picturesque landscape |
| 1:42.0 | in which they grew their organic food company and she |
| 1:45.0 | realized that their passion lay in the desire to teach people about how to |
| 1:49.8 | ferment and push this coloring art to new horizons and flavours. and Fermentation School which you can check out by checking out the link in the |
| 2:03.9 | bio is women-owned and women-led corporation supporting the voices of |
| 2:10.1 | independent educators to empower learning and build culture. |
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