Demonstrations
Sam Cooper - A Year of Fermentation
Where:
Food Theatre - Outer Bailey
When:
Sam Cooper is a Sunday Times bestselling author and chef-turned-gardener now working full-time on a farm on the West Wales coast.
His fascination with homegrown produce has grown along with his Instagram – @chef.sam.black has over half a million followers – where he posts delicious ferment recipes using seasonal ingredients.
In addition to work, Sam grows endangered grain each year to preserve the genetic diversity and maintain food resilience for the future, including rare black oats, which were once common across the UK, and develop new methods of processing them using fermentation.
Sam wrote the In the Kitchen chapter of The Self-Sufficiency Garden (March 2024), The Fermentation Kitchen (November 2024) and co-wrote How to Grow Food (March 2026) with Huw Richards. He is also a photographer and illustrator.
Find Sam on Instagram: @chef.sam.black
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