Category: Workshop
-
Master Of Spices: Global Heat and The Art Of Spicy preservations
A Fermenthings exploration of chili, spice, preservation, and the history of heat. Heat travels. It moves along trade routes, through migrations, across climate zones, kitchens, and generations. What begins as a plant chemical—capsaicin, sanshool, isothiocyanates—becomes taste, culture, and memory. Around the world, cooks have found ways to stabilise and shape heat into condiments that endure:…
-
How to Escape Coffee – Part 2: The Search for New Grounds
Part 1 followed coffee’s long shadow through history. Part 2 begins in a smaller space: the kitchen, the lab, the table. Here we try to rebuild what coffee once offered, using what grows around us. What Is Coffee, Really? To escape something, you first need to understand it. Coffee is more than a plant or…
-
How to Escape Coffee – Part 1 : The Bitter History of Coffee
Coffee is not just a drink. It’s a ritual, an economy, a memory of conquest and connection. It has fueled revolutions and morning routines alike — and perhaps, if we look closely, it can fuel reflection too. From Forest to Empire Every story of coffee begins with a myth.A goatherd named Kaldi, somewhere in the…