The Learned Pig

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Tag: fermentation

  • Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts

    Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts

    Artist Bianca Hlywa delves into the process of making collaborative installations using SCOBY – symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeast.

  • Canopic Jars: the Afterlife of Matter

    Canopic Jars: the Afterlife of Matter

    Artists Anna Walker and Genie Poretzky-Lee make use of glass jars as containers for an experimental process of growth and transformation.

  • New Wine, Old Pots

    New Wine, Old Pots

    When it comes to starting afresh, sometimes it helps to acknowledge a lack of control. That’s the thought that begins to crystallise while visiting the headquarters of De Martino, one of Chile’s most innovative winemakers. We’re standing in a large, bare, warehouse, just south of Santiago, among rows of several hundred clay amphorae. It’s like…

  • The Art of Fermentation

    The Art of Fermentation

    Sandor Ellix Katz is the author of The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes From Around The World, “the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published”. Released in 2012 with a foreword by Michael Pollan, it has received rapturous praise in both the food world and in environmentalist…