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Cultured

A Global Guide to Fermenting and Preserving Fruit, Vegetables, Dairy, and Grains, with over 150 recipes
Series: Preserved
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The only book on preserving you'll ever need! A vast and ambitious hardback cookbook featuring over 150 preserving recipes for drinks, condiments, snacks, and sweets. Organised by how long each recipe takes, there is something for all timescales—from quick pickles that are ready that day to... Read More
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Learn how to pickle, ferment, and preserve with over 150 recipes drawing on culinary traditions from around the world.

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The only book on preserving you'll ever need! A vast and ambitious hardback cookbook featuring over 150 preserving recipes for drinks, condiments, snacks, and sweets.

Organised by how long each recipe takes, there is something for all timescales—from quick pickles that are ready that day to methods that take weeks or months but can survive for years. Cultured draws on culinary traditions from around the world, employing techniques such as drying, canning, freezing, pickling, fermentation, salting, and freeze-drying. Making condiments like harissa and adjika, as well as staples and treats like kimchi, sauerkraut, preserved lemons, horchata, and pomegranate molasses to eat now and enjoy later has never been easier. The recipes are also accompanied by information on how to use these preserved foods to transform your cooking.

Written by the authorities in the field, and filled with fascinating essays, stunning photography, and illustrations, this volume is destined to become the go-to resource for all things preservation.


150+ recipes for every timescale: From same-day pickles to long-keeping ferments, with the history behind each method.

A world tour of preserving: Drying, canning, fermenting and pickling global staples like kimchi, harissa and preserved lemons, rooted in centuries-old traditions.

The definitive hardback reference: Written by leading authorities, with stunning photography, essays and the cultural origins of every technique.

Series: Preserved

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  • Cultured
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    Cultured
    The only book on preserving you'll ever need! A vast and ambitious hardback cookbook featuring over 150 preserving recipes for drinks, condiments, snacks, and sweets. Organised by how long each recipe takes, there is something for all timescales—from quick pickles that are ready that day to methods that take weeks or months but can survive for years. Cultured draws on...
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    Out 29 Sep 2026

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781958417171

Publisher: Hardie Grant US

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 October 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Hardie Grant US

Illustration: Full colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 201.0mm

Height: 253.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 432

About the Author

Darra Goldstein, the founding editor of Gastronomica, is the author of six award-winning cookbooks. In 2020, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Cortney Burns created San Francisco's famous Bar Tartine. Richard Martin is a media executive, lifestyle editor, and writer.

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