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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Prudence Wade

It’s time to change your mind about fermented food, says Mark Diacono

Mark Diacono/PA

On face value, fermented food doesn’t sound all that appealing – after all, you’re essentially leaving things to “go off” before they’re ready to eat.

While food writer Mark Diacono has now embraced a love of all things fermented, he wasn’t always this way. “Like most sane people, I always had a healthy disregard for anything fermented, and the chances of it possibly making me ill,” he says.

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