Lenka Kubelová (born 1984 in Prague) graduated from the Faculty of Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She currently works as the editor-in-chief of the Prague publishing house Alferia. She has translated several books and has also worked as a lecturer and teacher; she is also engaged in gentle activism and, as she says, is interested in “biocultural hopes”. In this article, she discusses food fermentation as a process of strengthening the health of the human organism…