Sauerkraut; A Container of Fermented Circumstances. - Monja Simon

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.

Monja Simon, 2025
Softcover, 64pp 
210 x 148mm