SAUERKRAUT; A CONTAINER OF FERMENTED CIRCUMSTANCES FROM ANTENNE BOOKS

SAUERKRAUT; A CONTAINER OF FERMENTED CIRCUMSTANCES FROM ANTENNE BOOKSFar beyond its tangy flavor and modest ingredients, sauerkraut serves as a lens into the entangled relations between gendered labour and microbial life. Sauerkraut: A Container of Fermented Circumstances, offers a compelling ethnographic research of working class women whose embodied practices of fermentation reveal the often invisible dimensions of care work. Drawing on in depth interviews and participant observation, Simon situates these culinary

Far beyond its tangy flavor and modest ingredients, sauerkraut serves as a lens into the entangled relations between gendered labour and microbial life. Sauerkraut: A Container of Fermented Circumstances, offers a compelling ethnographic research of working-class women whose embodied practices of fermentation reveal the often-invisible dimensions of care work. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation, Simon situates these culinary traditions within broader socio-political frameworks, examining how gender norms and biopolitical forces shape everyday acts of nourishment and survival. This research challenges readers to consider fermentation not merely as a technique of food preservation, but as a site where resistance, identity, and interspecies relations are continuously negotiated.