People used to tell me that time moves much more quickly when you’re older and now I know they were right. I can hardly believe this is the last day of 2014.
This has been quite a year! I taught many fermentation classes and had tons of fun doing it. I collaborated with the amazing people of High Street on Market on fun and inventive, fermentation dinners. I met my fermentation hero, Sandor Katz. I wrote a vegetable fermentation cookbook, Ferment Your Vegetables, A Fun and Flavorful Guide to Making Your Own Pickles, Kimchi, Kraut and More (check your local bookstore this fall). 2013 sucked, and I vowed that this year would be better. It was. It was infinitely better and more fun, and it has left me full of gratitude and so excited for the opportunities for collaboration and more fermenty fun in 2015.
Thank you so much for reading this year. And thank you especially for sticking around after the big ol’ lull that occurred in the final months of book-writing. I wish you a joyous and gratitude-filled 2015! Here are your favorite posts of 2014!
megan says
Amanda,
only discovered you the past fall – i don’t remember exactly how but i wanted to make fermented something, probably sauerkraut? anyway, that lead me to your page and to Sandor Katz and it was totally serendipity! or maybe i should have been expecting it? anyway just wanted to say thank you!
Amanda says
Thanks so much, Megan! I appreciate it!
Christa says
Yay for 2014 being better! And yay for Sandor Katz! I was actually at that conference, and met you there. You gave me some tibicos grains, which have become my new favorite ferment! Seriously. I’ve always been sort of meh about kombucha, something about the acidity of it never quite settled with me right, but tibicos is so delicious.
I was so excited to see that you are working on a cookbook, I can’t wait to read it. You were so knowledgable at the conference, I can only imagine how great a reference a book made by you will be.
Happy New Year!
Craig says
Just found your site and cannot wait to try out some if the recipes, starting with the beet kvass! Really loving all the fermentation stuff going on now and am always looking for more thing to try.
Thanks for posting!
Technical note: items 10 and 7 repeat for me (at least in my phone).
Amanda says
Thanks, Craig! And you’re right, there were redundant photo captions on those! Fixed! Thanks for the heads up!
Suze says
I just have to say that I love your website, your comments, your personality. I just discovered it, and have learned so much in just a few hours ! I wish I lived in Philly and could take some of your classes. Thank you !
Amanda says
Hi Suze,
Thanks so much! I greatly appreciate the encouragement! I’m hoping to take this show on the road at the end of the year when my book comes out, so keep your eyes peeled for the Phickle tour! 🙂