黑水龍年 Hei Shui Long Nian Black Water Dragon Year The Chinese New year has arrived! The year of the Black Water Dragon couldn’t have had a more auspicious start here in sunny SoCal. Rain in the desert is always a blessing and it poured down buckets. Having majored in Chinese and lived abroad in Taiwan,…
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What goes around comes around. In this edition of Kombucha News, Kombucha Kamp gets lots of internet love and asks you to pay it forward and engage in your own community. ******** Inspired by Buchi’s Fire Sorbet made by Hop Ice Cream Cafe in Asheville NC, I have been on a quest to make my own…
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Fermented foods are as old as mankind. The bacteria present in them have co-evolved with humans and their role in our long term health is just now being discovered by the Human Microbiome Project. In short, our body doesn’t survive very well without beneficial bacteria to literally tell it how to behave. Once one understands…
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Everywhere I go, I hear people offering advice on how to lose weight or talking about what kind of new diet is currently trending. Okay, I do live in LA, but people from all walks of life – friends, co-workers, the ladies in line behind me at Pinkberry – have food on the brain. Gluten-free,…
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Thanks to everyone who watched the show live. I appreciate your participation & questions. Sadly, there were quite a few technical difficulties and the show didn’t record properly :/ Participants: chobesoy, sus1018, fermentationfestival, Wisconsin Sheri, Amanda Gunn Sekour SPECIAL THANKS to Jennifer Harris of the Freestone Fermentation Festival for talking about the fest and People’s…
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