La nuit du vivant - Voyage au cœur de la pourriture

For centuries, humans have made bread using rot in the form of fermentation.

Wine quality does not only depend on the grape varieties, the year of the harvest or even the barrels in which it ferments. It is also necessary to count on yeasts which act throughout the process controlled by the winegrower, from the rotting of the grape to its fermentation...

To eat meat, it must be a little rotten or “stale”. Staling, tenderizing, sweating are all steps that give the meat all its flavor!

Oh if you only knew how cheese is made, this "rot under control" to be discovered here without disgust and without taboo!

In the ground, there are bacteria and molds that use natural antibiotics to neutralize each other. Clever, humans understood that they could copy these substances to fight infectious diseases. The moral of this story of biomimicry is that when it comes to micro-organisms, the soil's resources are inexhaustible...provided we don&…