Learn how to take delicious fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits and extend the season by pickling and fermenting them. The Portland Fermentation Festival (annual festival in its 6th year http://portlandfermentationfestival.com/) trio -- David Barber, George Winborn and Liz Crain -- will take you through the steps, and give you advice on ingredients and equipment, to make everything from fermented hot sauce, krauts and pickles to homemade vinegars.  

Liz Crain is a fiction writer as well as the author of Food Lover's Guide to Portland and Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull. A longtime writer on Pacific Northwest food and drink, her writing has appeared in Cooking Light, Budget Travel, VIA Magazine, The Sun Magazine, The Progressive, The Guardian and The Oregonian. She is also editor and publicity director at Hawthorne Books as well as co-organizer of the annual Portland Fermentation Festival. She is currently working on the Tasty n Sons Cookbook with John Gorham and a novel.

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