Ferment Love
ARTICLES'Suggestions for Some Christmas Fizz' Dec 14 2013, The Australian, Max Allen
"Do Try This at Home You could also jump on the home fermentation bandwagon. It's a bit too late to get any homebrew beer on the Christmas table, but you could start right now dabbling in non-alcoholic fermented drinks such as kefir or kombucha: all you could possibly need to help you is found in the pages of The Art of Fermentation, an amazing book by Sandor Katz, who also has an incredibly informative blog called Wild Fermentation. Or you could track down one of a growing number of small producers specialising in these hipster juices; because I'm an utter foodie wanker, I buy delicious, spritzy tibicos tonic ($18) made from mint and ginger and probiotic culture by Dr Chan's Feeling Good Ferments at my local farmers' market. Of course I do.wildfermentation.com; facebook.com/FeelingGoodTibicos"
'Superfood Superstars', 14 July 2014, Good Food Guide, Elissa McCallum
"Dr Chan focuses on the digestive and probiotic properties of fermented drinks and says while they are gaining popularity among consumers, they are also fun to make. ''People who are crazy about fermenting are called 'fermentos'. Once you do it, you become almost addicted to it. Fermentation is called the cold fire. You watch this thing and it starts to bubble and it starts to have life. It's very satisfying to then eat something that's full of living things.''"
'Brain Food: What You Should Be Eating For Good Mental Health', 6 May 2016, SBS Online, Lindy Alexander
"... None of this comes as a surprise to Dr Miin Chan. As a doctor working in Victorian hospitals Chan became aware of the outcomes of antibiotic overuse and antiseptic environments. “Having spent time on a colorectal unit I noticed a rise in chronic inflammatory bowel disease and food allergies and intolerances,” she says. “During extensive travel and studies in permaculture, regenerative practice and community design I began to understand the links between disease and the environment and the importance of gut health and fermentation in these complex, interconnected systems.”"
BLOGS
'Fermented Beverages: Drink To Your Health', 22 Nov 2013, Dr. Chan as contributing blogger at the Noble Nutritionist
"I believe that we’ve moved from being the Great Unwashed to the Great Over-Washed, and now is the time to find the balance between these two damaging extremes. It’s time to come back to the middle. We’ve over sanitised, over sterilised and have over done the antibiotics, and we’re paying for it, physically and mentally. More and more evidence shows that our battle against these micro- bugs has been poorly handled, and as a species we need to find a better way to co-exist with these tiny enemies, who are really our friends!"
'Doctor Chan's Feeling Good Ferments' April 13 2015, Stellar Violets, Lucinda Giblett
"Soon enough, Dr Chan’s Feeling Good Ferments was born, from a handful of culture, hauled across across Australia in a glass jar. That single shared handful has become hundreds and hundreds of “tibicos” cultures, grown in dozens of large glass jars in Miin’s production room."
'Feeling Good with Dr. Chan' 6 May 2015, CERES Fair Food Blog
"A few years ago while driving across the endless Nullabor Plain, Dr Miin Chan and her newly wedded husband, Niel, were sipping on some home fermented tibicos while listening to Nina Simone sing Feeling Good. Somewhere in the middle of that desert highway that young doctor, seeking an avenue to do greater good, that classic soulful song and and a slightly fizzy fermented beverage, fused into the name of their future tibicos brewing venture – Doctor Chan’s Feeling Good Ferments."