{"id":9491,"date":"2026-10-28T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:36:00","slug":"portland-fermentation-festival-stinkfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9491","title":{"rendered":"Sauerkraut at Every Meal? These Fermentation Fanatics Tried That Long Before MAHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">Waking early, I<\/span> put a small jar of my sauerkraut into my messenger bag, hop on my bicycle, ride to Seattle&#8217;s King Street Station, and board a train heading to the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/portlandfermentationfestival.com\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/portlandfermentationfestival.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/portlandfermentationfestival.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Fermentation Festival<\/a>, the yearly gathering affectionately nicknamed \u201cStinkfest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Usually the sheer existence of a festival like this is enough to get people revved up to come together and talk about their favorite ferments, but in an interesting twist, fermented foods are enjoying a popularity boost from a different crowd. The MAHA movement, and particularly the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"text link\">Donald Trump<\/a> cabinet, are big into fermented food, eating meat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/rfk-jr-says-hes-ending-the-war-on-protein-it-doesnt-exist\/\" class=\"text link\">usually steak<\/a>, with fermented sides like kimchi or sauerkraut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/i-took-rfk-jrs-advice-and-ate-nothing-but-high-protein-foods-for-a-week\/\" class=\"text link\">at every meal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">I&#8217;ve come to Portland, Oregon, wondering if there was going to be any overlap in the Venn diagram between festival attendees and the MAHA steak-and-ferment crowd. I mentioned this to my cousin-in-law Erick, who&#8217;s been part of the Portland food scene for years, and he laughed out loud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIt&#8217;ll be more like a Venn dumbbell,\u201d he said, making a pair of thumb-and-forefinger circles and tracing a line in the air between them. \u201cNo overlap, but food will be the bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Still, I was curious. I\u2019d check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The festival is almost exactly what the fermentation-friendly might hope to find. Right inside the main door next to the check-in desk is a bacterial petting zoo\u2014a common thing at this sort of event\u2014and a table where attendees can drop off their own ferments to share. Further on, lining every wall of the main room, are exhibitors who have paid a grand total of 25 bucks for a table, handing out free samples of fermented foods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The space quickly fills up\u2013several hundred people flow through over the course of the evening\u2013and it appears that there&#8217;s both a line in front of each exhibitor and perhaps a more organic continuous line with people flowing clockwise from one exhibitor to the next. People are notably excited and happy. There&#8217;s a kid walking around with a tray of handmade pickle pins he&#8217;s giving people to wear and there&#8217;s a collective gasp when 20 or 30 minutes in, Dillon T. Pickle, the mascot of the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.portlandpicklesbaseball.com\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.portlandpicklesbaseball.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandpicklesbaseball.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Pickles<\/a> West Coast League baseball team, walks into the room. At one point, a big baby crawls across most of the main floor, unhindered and happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In the middle of it all is festival co-organizer, journalist, and cookbook author <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.lizcrain.com\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.lizcrain.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lizcrain.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liz Crain<\/a>. She explains that the Fest, now in its 14th installment, was started in 2009 by friends who love to ferment. There were members of a little company called Pickleopolis and a club called The Kraut Collective, and, with some help from author and fermentation rockstar Sandor Katz, they launched a Portland tradition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/portland-fermentation-festival-stinkfest\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waking early, I put a small jar of my sauerkraut into my messenger bag, hop on my bicycle, ride to Seattle&#8217;s King Street Station, and board a train heading to the Portland Fermentation Festival, the yearly gathering affectionately nicknamed \u201cStinkfest.\u201d Usually the sheer existence of a festival like this is enough to get people revved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[895,210,1245,153,359],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-food","tag-food-and-drink","tag-food-science","tag-kitchen","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sauerkraut at Every Meal? 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