Sandor Katz

Sandor Ellix Katz
Sandor Katz doing a fermentation workshop at the Monticello Heritage Harvest Festival, 12 September 2015
Born	1962 (age 54–55)
Known for	Food writer focusing on DIY fermentation
Notable work	Wild Fermentation (2003) The Art of Fermentation (2012)

Sandor Ellix Katz (born 1962) is an American food writer and DIY food activist.

A self-described "fermentation fetishist", Katz has taught hundreds of food workshops around the United States, and his book Wild Fermentation (2003) has been called a classic, "the bible for people embarking on DIY projects like sourdough or sauerkraut", and "especially notorious for getting people excited about fermenting food". He was named one of Chow magazine's top trendsetters and rabble-rousers in 2009.

Born to a Jewish family with origins in Belarus, Katz grew up in New York City. He is openly gay, an AIDS survivor, and began his fermentation experimentation while living in a rural, off-the-grid Radical Faerie community in Tennessee.

Katz was the subject of the 2009 punk rock song "Human(e) Meat (The Flensing of Sandor Katz)", a satirical vegan response to Katz's 2006 chapter on "Vegetarian Ethics and Humane Meat" in The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved.