Mushroom Amino Sauce with Shared Cultures

My friend and fellow fermentation enthusiast Eleana Hsu just uploaded the first video to the Shared Cultures YouTube channel! I’ve embedded the video at the bottom of this post. It’s a recorded live presentation in which she shows how easy it is to prepare dried mushrooms (that she foraged herself, no less) to create an amino sauce with koji, and provides a lot of tips…

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Sourdough Science

I am transitioning my sourdough starter to whole wheat from the all-purpose flour I’ve been using. Partly because I finally found some whole wheat flour at the store this week, and partly because of this stunning time lapse video showing the rise and fall of three kinds of starter, made by the Wild Sourdough Project at the Rob Dunn Lab: While the white and wheat…

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