Archive for the ‘ wild ’ Category
Ok, it’s official: the European (read Belgian) version of Japanese nuka works. The mix of beer (wild fermentation of course) and wheat bran and the micro-climate of my kitchen produce wonders. From time to time, I add more slices of ginger and rub in some miso paste, the nuka mix gives vegetables a pleasant and [ READ MORE ]
So nice to be back to the blog after such a long time! Especially with a couple of pics such as these. For those who want to the get the full story of Monbiot’s fishing off the British coast from a canoe, here is the link to his piece from The Guardian In a nutshell, [ READ MORE ]
Meeting the “other”, the “exotic” and then return to oneself to establish one’s own identity as a diversity. This is the the central thesis of Nicolas Bourriaud’s (Palais De Tokyo, now Tate Britain) latest book, The Radicant. The Radicant is not a cool urban condition but a family of plants that develop their roots as [ READ MORE ]
I have been looking for this pic nearly two years. I could not remember who had taken it, with which camera, digital or reflex and in the end it turned out that it had been a Nikon on black film and that the roll was in the bottom of a cardboard box in [ READ MORE ]
There are food things that go beyond taste. There are flavors that are non-flavors, textures that are stronger than flavors, “moments” of the mouth that have to do with a certain resistance to one’s teeth and that for some obscure reason happen to strike such a strong and energizing bond with our symbolic imagination that [ READ MORE ]
I still remember arriving on the island of S.Erasmo, one morning three years ago, sometime around 6am, the island surrounded by a golden haze and still sleeping. As Lai Ling and I stepped out of the boat and started walking inland, a dog, a cat and a chicken, began following us around. S.Erasmo is Venice’s [ READ MORE ]
During a short trip to Australia, I had the chance to meet Aboriginal chef Aunty Beryl from Sydney. One of the first things she said to me was “we are survivors”. She meant that native Australian people are survivors of the Western domination. She would be one kid from the “stolen generation”, had her [ READ MORE ]
…up and down Belgian hills, West of Brussels, until Courtrai, under the scorching heat, escorting Sofia Corte Real on the first day of her 1000 km ride until the West coast of France. Titanne and I were spotting cherry trees all along the way and ended up climbing on a fence in order to [ READ MORE ]
The method has been worked out by Takao Furuno, a farmer from North Kyushu in Japan. In a nutshell, Furuno found a way to grow healthy and plentiful organic rice and to take care of weeds by letting ducks live in the rice fields. It took him years of practice and observation to adjust the [ READ MORE ]
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