Sauerkraut is very popular throughout Central Europe and there are hundreds of recipes for it. It can be braised, eaten raw with salads, cooked with sausages or used in hearty soups. These days, sauerkraut and other fermented foods are regarded as superfoods and you can buy fancy sauerkraut in organic shops. It is easy to prepare yourself – unless your Croatian family, like mine, prepares 50 kg by hand, and then it’s hard work! Every year my father makes his own sauerkraut in a huge barrel.