SPEAKER DETAILS
Austin Durant
Austin Durant has been fermenting food for over a dozen years. In 2011, he founded Fermenters Club, whose mission is to improve people’s lives by teaching them why and how to make and enjoy fermented foods; and to create communities that are connected through their guts. Austin has taught hundreds of live, hands-on classes on a wide variety of fermented foods and their traditions such as sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, kombucha, miso and sourdough bread. He writes and publishes recipes (mostly fermented) on his website, fermentersclub.com and hosts on-demand, self-paced food fermentation mastery courses through Fermenters Club Academy. He teaches live and virtual private team-building workshops to corporations and other organizations and hosts fermentation intensive workshops.
When not stuffing things into jars, Austin enjoys tending to his garden, cooking, yoga, writing, practicing permaculture and studying cosmology and esoteric traditions. In 2024, he authored his first book, Fearless Fermenting.
PRESENTATION
SAUERKRAUT AND THE ALCHEMY OF FERMENTATION
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27
Author and educator, Austin Durant, will guide you through the universe of food fermentation. He will first demonstrate how to safely make a darn good batch of naturally fermented sauerkraut at home as well as provide some inspiring flavor suggestions (and samples). Then, he will dive deeper to discuss the symbiotic relationships that exist between Man and microbe. By explaining how life forms interact and exchange matter and energy, he will reveal unique perspectives about fermentation: that it is in fact a form of alchemy.