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Quotes About Fermenting

Youth is the leaven that keeps all these questioning, testing attitudes fermenting in the world.
~ RANDOLPH SILLIMAN BOURNE
Her body was fermenting like new wine.
~ Jean Giono
The pH of a must will go up as fermentation progresses.
~ Jeff Cox
The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell to me like fermenting apples.
~ Laurie R. King
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms. O girl, it's like this: inside us we haven't loved just some one in the future, but a fermenting tribe; not just one child, but fathers, cradled inside us like ruins of mountains, the dry riverbed of former mothers, yes, and all that soundless landscape under its clouded or clear destiny—girl, all this came before you.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Sandor Ellix Katz
~ Basic Rice Beer
But in the closeness of the sewing room, Simon can smell her as well as look at her. He tries to pay no attention but her scent is a distracting undercurrent. She smells like smoke; smoke, and laundry soap, and the salt from her skin; and she smells of the skin itself, with its undertone of dampness, fullness, ripeness - what? Ferns and mushrooms; fruits crushed and fermenting.
~ Margaret Atwood
Why, Windrip's just something nasty that's been vomited up. Plenty others still left fermenting in the stomach—quack economists with every sort of economic ptomaine! No, Buzz isn't important—it's the sickness that made us throw him up that we've got to attend to—the sickness of more than 30 per cent permanently unemployed, and growing larger. Got to cure it!
~ Sinclair Lewis
Walking and hiking does this. Cooking does, too. The witchy, grandmotherly type of cooking where you prepare things from scratch and you treat it as a hobby, not a chore to be rushed through. Fermenting vegetables gets me back in sync. Yoga works. Hot and slow and controlled by breath, breaking down to our bone-heavy pace.
~ Sarah Wilson
Pickled by his own press release, fermenting in ruined optimism.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.
~ Fiona Wood
Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale.
~ Kenelm Digby
Coffee—a barbaric drink. That poor, tortured bean. All that fermenting and husking and roasting and grinding. And what is tea? Tea is dried leaves rehydrated. Just add water, Mrs. Strickland. All living things need water.
~ Guillermo del Toro
This can involve juicing, fermenting, and sprouting nutrient-dense foods, as well as making sure that you're getting plenty of antioxidants, whole-foods based vitamins and minerals, complex carbohydrates, protein, healthy fats, and of course, clean water.
~ Unknown
To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the older woman's art of fermenting rage, conserving it, for later use.
~ Zadie Smith
Autumns in Hunter were dedicated to a critical endeavor that enhanced our revelries year-round: the fermenting and bottling of apple cider.
~ Jacques Pepin