How to Cook a Book

Dr Johnny Drain on Adventures in Fermentation

Johnny with Doug McMaster at Silo

Chef, scientist, inventor and ideator in fermentation, Dr Johnny Drain is my guest this week as we find out how he cooked his first book, Adventures in Fermentation

Harold McGee calls it ‘a delightfully personal guide to your tiny but talented microbes’, while Fergus Henderson says ‘it’s a gripping story full of glorious gems.’

In the second of this series of interviews for my paid subscribers on how food writers get their ideas to market, work with agents and editors and why to write a book in the first place, I found Johnny on a speaking tour in the middle of Japan. He tells me why.