Beet kvass is a fermented Ukrainian drink that provides not only probiotics and digestive enzymes, but is a key aid in detoxifying the body. Fermenting anything heightens its nutritional value and ...

Bon Appétit Test Kitchen Manager Brad Leone is back for Episode 32 of "It's Alive." This time Brad makes the highly requested beet kvass. It's a fermented drink popularly made with rye bread, but ...

Gut health has become the talk of every kitchen table lately, hasn’t it? The hype around probiotics and fermented foods is ...

Mehr Singh is a food and culture reporter based in New York. Her work appears in Bon Appétit, Food52, and other publications. If you’re the kind of person who finishes a jar of pickles and finds ...

The Washington Post Food staff and Katherine Harmon Courage, the author of "Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome," recently answered questions about all things edible. Here are edited ...

The proposition sounds a little dubious: Leave some vegetables in a jar on your counter. Just leave them there. For weeks. Then eat them. It's perfectly safe, say the pickling enthusiasts. They're ...

The first person to soak the humble cucumber in some vinegar couldn't in their wildest dreams have predicted the Picklewich, pickle ice cream or pickle Bloody Marys, but here we are. Pickles aren't ...

The secret to better health might be bubbling away in your kitchen. As research increasingly connects gut health to overall wellness, fermented foods are gaining popularity — and for good reason.