Wildcrafted Vinegars

Wildcrafted Vinegars Synopsis

*Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Silver Winner for Cooking

Award-winning author and forager Pascal Baudar uncovers incredible flavors and inspiring recipes to create unique, place-based vinegars using any landscape.

Includes more than 100 delicious, easy recipes for quick pickles, soups, sauces, salad dressings, beverages, desserts, jams, and more!

"[Wildcrafted Vinegars] celebrates the versatility of this all-important-but often overlooked-acid in the kitchen."-Plate Magazine

After covering yeast fermentation (The Wildcrafting Brewer) and lactic acid fermentation (Wildcrafted Fermentation), pioneering food expert Pascal Baudar completes his wild fermentation trilogy by tackling acetic acid ferments and the wide array of dishes you can create with them. Baudar delves deeply into the natural world for wild-gathered flavors: herbs, fruits, berries, roots, mushrooms-even wood, bark, and leaves-that play a vital part in infusing distinctive gourmet-quality vinegars.

More than 100 recipes show how to use homemade vinegars to make a wide range of delicious foods: quick pickles, soups, sauces, salad dressings, beverages, desserts, jams, and other preserves.

Recipes include:

• Pine, fir, and spruce-infused vinegar
• Smoked mushroom and seaweed vinegar
• Blueberry-mugwort vinegar
• Wilder curry vinaigrette
• Wasabi ginger vinegar sauce
• Pickled walnuts
• Mountain oxymel
• And many more!