Kimchi, also a lacto-ferment, is made with napa cabbage, Korean spices or Gochujang paste, and typically a few other crunchy vegetables like scallions and carrots. Zilber's at-home method is ...

While there, I persuaded an elderly friend of my sister-in-law to show me how she made kimchi. When we arrived at her apartment, the living-room furniture had been pushed aside to make space.