Jeremy Umansky

Koji Alchemy was a James Beard Foundation Media Award Finalist in 2022! Jeremy Umansky is a co-chef/co-owner of Larder Delicatessen & Bakery in Cleveland, Ohio, a from-scratch Eastern European deli focusing on the use and promotion of local and wild foods that was nominated by the James Beard Foundation as the Best New Restaurant in America in 2019 and as Best Chef Great Lakes in 2020 and 2023. Umansky is as a foremost expert on koji and fermented, preserved, and foraged foods and works as a consultant on the use and creation of these foods and ingredients. Follow along on Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter: @tmgastronaut & @larderdb Articles written by and about Umansky’s work have appeared in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and Saveur, among other outlets. Umansky has given a TEDx Talk about koji and has been teaching classes and giving lectures about it and other fermented foods for many years. Umansky's own writings can be found regularly on the pages of Edible Cleveland. Umansky spends his free time with his wife Allie, a pastry chef and co-owner of Larder Delicatessen & Bakery, and his daughters Emilia and Adeline.