They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do their life’s ...

Yeast may be hard to find in the store, but it turns out that it’s easy to find at home. Yeast is all around us, ready to be gathered. Floating through the air, it’s found living on fruits, vegetables ...

Now that we’re all on lockdown and our low-carb diets have gone out the window, many of us are trying our hands at baking our own bread. But since we all had this exact same idea at the exact same ...

Our habits surrounding time at home have changed significantly over the past couple of years. Whether spending quality time with the family or picking up some soothing solo activities, chances are you ...

Yeast is a living, breathing organism that turns a bowl of flour, water, and salt into a flavorful, gorgeous loaf of homemade bread. There are two main types of yeast you'll find in the grocery ...

FLORIAN BAUER’S recipe doesn’t sound very wine-like. Take water, sugar, some amino acids and yeast, and let it ferment. And yet… “When you smell it you say, ‘yes, that’s wine!’,” says Bauer, a wine ...

When scientists in France set out to sequence 1,000 yeast genomes, they looked at strains from all the places you might expect: beer, bread, wine. But also: sewage, termite mounds, tree bark, the ...

Hops bring two key attributes to beer: bitterness and aromas. Some hop-driven styles have a medium or pronounced bitterness ...