For years, Augusti Ntivuguruzwa struggled to perfect his banana wine in Rwanda. As for many traditional wine-makers in the ...

Although Dahl died in 1990, yeast remained on the chair for many more ... Roald Dahl himself would have wanted. For more food and drink goodness, join The Takeout's newsletter.

Later, in 1755, yeast were defined in the Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson as "the ferment put into drink to make it work; and into bread to lighten and swell it." At the time ...

cheese and baker's yeast. The genetic history of these yeasts has been guided by humans utilizing them for food and drink and these "domesticated" yeasts differ from wild yeasts associated with ...

But this 3,000-year-old yellow wine, made from glutinous rice, water from Jianhu Lake and a wheat-based yeast, is so much more than just a seasoning. It is one of the oldest wines in the world and ...

Yeast is used to make alcoholic drinks. When yeast cells are reproducing rapidly during beer or wine production, the oxygen is used up. The yeast has to switch to using anaerobic respiration to ...