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Shape Shifting Creatures

The animal body can be visualized as a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, made up of distinct, interlocking pieces. These pieces all have very specific volumes that begin and end at...

Sugar-Free Fermented Marmalade

After making preserved lemons I saw a comment somewhere that marmalade was once made by lacto-fermentation rather than with heaps of sugar like jam. I prefer a low sugar, low glycemi...

Preserved Lemons

Without my own lemon tree, supermarket lemons are expensive so I go to the Farmers' market and get a large bag and make preserved lemons. When I first made these I didn't realize the...

Fermented Chilli and Garlic sauce

Many cultures (Louisiana, Thai, Hunan, Korea, Indonesia, Portugal) make a fermented chilli sauce. This is my goto recipe and there's always a jar of this in the fridge. I'm not into ...

PyBoard Datalogger

I've been reading Sandor Katz's book The Art of Fermentation and I'm making back-slopped room temperature yogurt, sauerkraut, kim chi, preserved lemons and best of all fermented garl...