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With the optimistic plan to keep adding new posts as my fermenting projects go well, I’ve added a Ferments page, which you can see linked at the top of the site.

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After some measure of success with breeding Melvin from nothing but flour, water, and air, I’d gotten it into my head that not only is fermenting delicious, but also easy. I was introduced to nukazuke by a friend of mine who’d spent a lot of time in Japan. A bit of reading led me to [...]

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Way back when, just after having started the sourdough project and maybe even before I first heard of these nukazuke, my friend and then-neighbor Sarah mentioned to me that she’d found this great little store up the street that sold all kinds of flours and grains. I filed it away at the time and totally [...]

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A long time ago (well, 2008) I got it into my head that it would be a good idea to start my own sourdough culture. I had easy access to an oven (counter-top) in my own apartment, and I figured if the need arose I’d make use of my parents’ oven (a real one). So [...]

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Lately on Quora I’ve been seeing a lot of chatter on the topic of something called the “Paleo Diet“. The gist of it appears to me that gluten is (very) bad, and most carbohydrates fall on a scale from not-good to akin-to-poison. That this seems a little dramatic may be a consequence of the… colorful [...]

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