The fermentation is a process that i used in multiple places around the world, and the reason for that is that the people found out that it can be an excellent way to preserve food, make alcohol, make delicious and healthy dishes.
There's lot of strong alcohols that are made by using the fermentation process. In Japan it is through the fermentation of the rice that they get the rice wine known as sake. In the Balkans it is the rakia, a strong local brandy-type alcohol made out of fermented grapes.
Eastern Europe in general has a reputation that most of the households make their own fermented dishes from vegetables and fruits. The fermented cabbage is one of them, often used as salad, for making the local dish sarma, and the juice from the fermented cabbage (with salt and river rock as well), called rasolnica is used as a cure or prevention for lot of diseases. Turshija is a another one, where multiple types of vegetables like cauliflower, pickles, carrots, green peppers, green tomatoes, Jerusalem artichoke are all fermented in a barrel, the end result being a very delicious and healthy salad.
