If I had an extra $280.00 to my name, this is the book I’d buy (thanks to Rachel Laudan for pointing it out to me several months ago, at which time I received the book through an inter-library loan thanks to the University of Virginia library).  And in a recent discussion on the ASFS listserv … More Fermentations and Food Science in China — Joseph Needham’s Magnum Opus and Ancient Probiotics