Adventure Time in the Koji Kingdom | Jeremy Umansky | TEDxCLE

Jeremy Umansky is driving culinary innovation in a new, delicious direction with his work with transformative mold, koji. He explains how & challenges the audience to think of implications for how to take this process to the next level in his 2015 TEDxCLE talk.

Jeremy Umansky is the Larder Master and Wild Food Forager for Team Sawyer’s growing list of lauded concepts, including Trentina and The Greenhouse Tavern. In this role, he does everything from making fresh cheeses and yogurts, to churning butter, to curing meat, to fermenting and bottling sauces. Umansky also forges throughout the Cuyahoga Valley, allowing Sawyer to serve seventy species of wild fungi and use over 180 wild plants that grow in the region at Trentina. He cooks at Trentina several nights a week, and oversees Team Sawyer’s entire pasta-making program.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx