Rene Redzepi is the chef and co-owner of noma in Copenhagen, four times recognised as the world's best by the World's 50 Best Restaurants. Redzepi has twice appeared on the cover of Time magazine (and been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World); been featured in publications from the New York Times to Wired; and been profiled in two feature-length documentaries and countless national and international media outlets. His first book, Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine, an IACP and James Beard Award winner, has over 150,000 copies in print. He is also the author of A Work in Progress. He lives with his wife, Nadine Levy Redzepi, and their three children. Find him on Instagram @reneredzepinoma and @nomacph. David Zilberis a chef and photographer who hails from Toronto, Canada. He has cooked from coast to coast across North America, most notably as a sous-chef at Hawksworth Restaurant in Vancouver. He has worked at noma since 2014 and has served as director of its fermentation lab since 2016. He enjoys Jamaican patties and quantum physics. Find him on Instagram @david_zilber.
A significant [marker of] culinary culture. . . . A fresh set of transformative cooking fundamentals . . . [that] make ferments something cooks reach for as readily as salt. --The New York Times, Fall's Best Cookbooks Cure kitchen boredom with Noma's primer on fermented foods. . . . Prepare to be amazed. --Wired [A] window into the magic . . . of what is arguably the most famous restaurant in the world. --Food & Wine, The Best Cookbooks Coming Out This Fall A wildly practical and fascinating examination of one of the world's oldest methods of food preservation. --Publishers Weekly, starred review This book on fermentation is the master class. --Eater, The Best Cookbooks of Fall 2018 Poised to become an essential tome in professional and home kitchens. --San Francisco Chronicle The Noma Guide to Fermentation is really something special. . . . It's a great beginner's overview and it's also creative and artistic, and I really recommend checking it out. --The Splendid Table Refreshingly accessible. --Grub Street, The Best New Fall Cookbooks Without question, you need this book. Even if you already have a basic understanding about lacto-fermenting; fermenting kombucha, vinegar, and working with koji; and making your own vinegars, this volume is a treasure trove of inspiration. . . . Beyond the fermentations themselves, Redzepi and Zilber share clever ideas for using each ingredient, such as a blended fermented blueberry paste to smear on fresh corn [and] a coffee kombucha soaked into ladyfingers for tiramisu. . . . Indispensable. --Plate, The Best Fall 2018 Cookbooks A new way to create the building blocks of great dishes that will really set your cooking apart. --Robb Report, The 6 Cookbooks You'll Want to Add to Your Shelf This Fall [Redzepi's] influence on the food world is unparalleled. . . . Once dubbed the 'Locavore Hero' for popularizing the local food movement and foraged foods, Redzepi now believes that the future of Noma as well as the food industry is clearly fermented. . . . The Noma Guide to Fermentation aims to promote the creative new flavor profiles yielded by fermentation as well as propel the idea that fermentation can actually make cooking easier. . . . [It's] the home cook's new favorite food hack. --Forbes.com Perfect for every experience level of readers interested in fermentation. --Mother Earth News If you're eager to dive into the wonderful, funky world of fermented food (and you should be, as the effects on your health and taste buds will be nothing short of extraordinary), this book will be your new go-to guide. --Mind Body Green, The 10 Best Healthy Cookbooks for Fall Techniques for achieving the tangy, deeply savory, overall extraordinary flavor that fermentation can bring to a dish. --Epicurious Highly original. . . . Throw yourself into it and the rewards are many. The book comes alive when it lists ways to serve and share the end results--black garlic, for instance, can be slathered on crusty grilled sourdough bread, tossed with pastas and pesto, or turned into a black onion soup. . . . All-embracing, nerdy, driven, cultish and compelling. --Australian Financial Review [Reveals] the foodie secret of the world's top chef. . . . Promises to be the canonical western work on microbial terroir. --The Times (London) The famous foraging chef reveals new secrets in his book devoted to fermented foods. . . . What the book makes clear, however, is that his secret isn't fermentation, it is the ways in which he's elevated it to a fine art. . . . This is a cookbook in the sense that it contains recipes, though it reads more like a textbook for a graduate-level fermentation course--albeit one penned with the lightness, humor and journalistic acumen of a Michael Pollan tome. --Modern Farmer In the detailed, intelligent Noma Guide to Fermentation . . . accessibility is the goal. . . . What's astounding about this book, coming from Noma, is that the recipe for lacto fermented blueberries is simple, easy, well laid out, presented with options (like many of the recipes here) based on your preferences or available equipment. Most recipes are followed by suggestions that seem delicious, and again, astoundingly sane. --The Daily Beast With The Noma Guide to Fermentation, Ren and his team have written the definitive guide to creating fermented foods. We're all smarter for the years of research that went into this book, and I'm thrilled that home cooks and professionals alike have access to this information. --David Chang, chef/founder of Momofuku Ren Redzepi and the Noma team bring extraordinary creativity to the ancient and universal practice of fermentation. Accessible enough for novices, The Noma Guide to Fermentation is sure to elevate the practices of those of us already enchanted with the vast realm of fermentation. --Sandor Katz, award-winning author of The Art of Fermentation After reading The Noma Guide to Fermentation, I want to lacto-ferment every single thing in sight! A whole new world of ideas has been opened. As ever, Ren and his Noma team generously share their knowledge of their initial fermentation 'accidents' and how the alchemy of mold, yeast, and bacteria can completely transform one's cooking. --Kylie Kwong, chef and co-owner of Billy Kwong The Noma Guide to Fermentation gathers detailed recipes for the restaurant's most successful discoveries, documents the current state of the craft they've helped advance, and offers a superb introduction for chefs and home cooks alike to the practicalities and pleasures of cooking with microbes. --Harold McGee, award-winning author of On Food and Cooking The science lab at Noma is the perfect culinary incubator to take on an in-depth study of fermentation. I am thrilled that Redzepi and Zilber have given us access to their diligent research as they offer us the recipes for their most successful, and delicious, results! --Alice Waters, author of The Art of Simple Food