Tastes of the Town: Kombucha: It’s Alive!

Occasionally my husband prepares a fermented drink from living organisms and our kitchen takes on the look of a mad scientist’s lab. SCOBY, Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast, is the living culture. This host is fed tea and sugar and fermentation produces an effervescent kombucha drink. A “baby” SCOBY grows across the top surface of the liquid with each new batch of kombuch...