Sergeant Gun sells fermented fish online after a bombing incident, gaining support and orders through social media.

At summer's end, more than a thousand locals gather in Alfa, Sweden, to eat fermented fish known as Surströmming. WSJ's John Stoll tries out the notoriously smelly fish.

It originated as a thin soy sauce made from fermented fish most likely from a region called Tonkin, or in what we call Vietnam today. It was common throughout Southeast Asia in the 17th century.

A new exhibition opening at the University of New Mexico's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on Saturday, March 8, explores the central role fermentation has played across human civilizations. "Entangled ...