Sandor Ellix Katz, a fermentation revivalist Michael Pollan calls the “Johnny Appleseed of Fermentation,”is the author of the classics in the field: Wild Fermentationand The Art of Fermentation, and has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops around the world that have helped catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, The New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” Sandor is the recipient of a James Beard award and other honors.