Salt of The Earth

December 30th at at 11AM EST (New York) is the final session of our WritersCultures program, and the start of a new year of Salt and Ceremony. We have many things planned for those that become Annual Members.



Before the end of the year that will cost you $75. Once 2023 rolls around that will cost $150 dollars. See below for registration information.


Eleni Michael with Moungra, a unique sourdough based ferment specific to Cyprus.

Using leaven or sourdough, or any fermenting starch like rice paste, to make ferments is an ancient practice. Thanks to Charles Perry for translating into English some of the most important history of fermentation, preservation and pickling.

For the final day we have an amazing line up. So far, that includes Christine Krauss of Chirp Foods making her version of subeshi, or walnut and miso stuffed citrus sweetmeat or confection. Nancy Singleton Hachisu has redone her entire presentation and added some crucial photos and narrative to her Nami no Hana (波の花) Do Goen segment.


Mustard Kraut made with cabbage and corn sourdough starter

We also have Ken Fornataro on ancient and modern ferments using sourdough or grain based leavens as was done – and in some places, still is – very commonly.

Then, Vanika Choudhary will demonstrate a regional version of a pumpkin miso – easily adapted to where you live – using rice koji and peppers native to her part of India.

Takashi Sato of San—J instructs you to make a very intense, gluten free version of shoyu or Japanese soy sauce called tamari, then offers some brilliant ways to use it. And Dawn Woodward of Evelyn’s Crackers presents a trio of amazing rye and whole grain based breads and desserts.

And there’s more. But you’re not going to see other than the above until 2023. Salt and Ceremony is the final, months long group of Sessions of our program WritersCultures. Before December 31st Annual Membership costs $75. In January of 2023 it goes to $150.


Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


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Brine Salts and Circular Fermentation

On the 18th of December at 3PM EST (New York) we will broadcast the videos submitted by a group called Fermenthings. They are located in Belgium, yet setting an international example of how the basic principles of fermentation can, and should be applied in a sustainable way to create amazing tasting foods and beverages.



If you have not yet registerered for all the Salt and Ceremony events that come with an Annual Membership for the entire year of 2023 as well you should do it before the end of this year.



If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend, or access at a later date, all of the December events but also an entire year of hundreds of new videos and events that we offer in 2023.

For $75 USD here: https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures


Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


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Salt, History, and Cultures

Sunday, December 18th at 3PM EST

19th Century Powder Bread

December 18th, 2022 at 3PM EST
  • William Rubel – Baking Powder Bread
  • Patrícia Miguel – Portuguese Corn Broa
  • Fermenthings – Brine Salts
  • Eleni Michael – Moungra
  • Anton Nicola – Sourdough Pizza 
  • Justin Tyler Tate – 酸菜Taiwanese-Hakka style fermented greens

William Rubel’s Baking Power Bread.

William Rubel – Hearth and Heritage – William is an author who writes about traditional food and foodways, including “Bread, a global history” (2011). He also writes about Early Modern British Gardens, and for a more general audience for Mother Earth News on bread, gardening, and more. He is the co-director of the Samburu Lowlands Research Station, Lengusaka, in Northern Kenya at Sambururesearch.com

William is the founding editor (1972) of Stone Soup, the magazine of writing and art by young people. His book, “The Magic of Fire, 100 recipes for fireplace and campfire” was published in 2002 and was Nominated for the James Beard Award and won the World Gourmand Award, in France. William was awarded is a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole, an honor bestowed in him for his work in traditional foodways, including his bread research. He is currently writing a history of bread for the University of California Press.


Suggested Serving with mushrooms

If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend or access all of the December events, but an entire year of hundreds of new videos, events, and videos repurposed based on feedback. For $75 USD here: https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures

This offer is only good until 12/31/2023 Eastern Time. After that, if we have available spaces, the fee will be $150 dollars for the same content.


Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


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Chelow ba Tahdig: Salt and Ceremony



Chelow ba Tah Dig is one of the most famous Persian rice dishes. For Salt and Ceremony, Dr. Nader Mehravari will detail how salt is used three different ways in the prepartion of this dish. Salt and Ceremony is the name of the group of 6 sessions that place during the month of December. There are live parts that get recorded, and videos associated with each session.

If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend or access all of the December events, but an entire year of hundreds of new videos, events, and videos repurposed based on feedback. For $75 USD here: https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures


If you are interested in participating live in any event from now un til 12/31/2023 and watching curated videos the entire year of 2023 that will teach you how to cook, ferment, bake, preserve, and brew use the form below two register now.

This offer is only good until 12/31/2023 Eastern Time. After that, if we have available spaces, the fee will be $150 dollars for the same amazing content.


Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


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شب یلدا (Yaldā)


Shab-é-Yaldā is the Persian celebration of the winter solstice. This longest night of the year has been celebrated in the Persianate world for 5000 years. It is an important celebration, second only to the Persian New Year.

On Yaldā night (شب یلدا), after dinner, family members typically gather around a colorful spread of pomegranate, watermelon, persimmon, mixtures of dried fruit and nuts, various Persian confections, and a book of poems by the 14th century Persian poet Hāfez. 

For Salt and Ceremony, Dr. Nader Mehravari will present on Yaldā. Salt and Ceremony is the name of the group of 6 sessions that place during the month of December. There are live parts that get recorded, and videos associated with each session.

If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend or access all of the December events, but an entire year of hundreds of new videos, events, and videos repurposed based on feedback. For $75 USD here: https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures


If you are interested in participating live in any event from now un til 12/31/2023 and watching curated videos the entire year of 2023 that will teach you how to cook, ferment, bake, preserve, and brew use the form below two register now.

This offer is only good until 12/31/2023 Eastern Time. After that, if we have available spaces, the fee will be $150 dollars for the same amazing content.


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Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


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Salt and Bread Science

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For Salt and Ceremony , Chef Ken Fornataro will demonstrate that 10% sodium percentage sourdough bread can make an amazingly tasty and useful bread. It’s all about time and temperature and sequence.

Salt and Ceremony is the name of the group of 6 sessions that place during the month of December. There are live parts that get recorded, and videos associated with each session.

If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend or access all of the December events, but an entire year of hundreds of new videos, events, and videos repurposed based on feedback. For $75 USD here: https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures


If you are interested in participating live in any event from now un til 12/31/2023 and watching curated videos the entire year of 2023 that will teach you how to cook, ferment, bake, preserve, and brew use the form below two register now.

This offer is only good until 12/31/2023 Eastern Time. After that, if we have available spaces, the fee will be $150 dollars for the same amazing content.


Heavily-Toasted-Sourdough-Bread-for-Kvass

Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


10% Salt Sourdough Bread with Fresh Rosemary and Caciocavallo

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Salt and Seaweed

Melanie McIntosh is a Chef based in South-East London. She makes pickles, ferments and condiments using produce from around the UK and British Isles – using quite literally what’s surrounding the Islands: seaweed.

Sugar Kelp Tseukedane by Melanie McIntosh

For Salt and Ceremony Melanie will be demonstrating recipes using mostly store cupboard ingredients. First, a display of seaweeds she has in her kitchen. Then, a banana blossom ceviche using different dried seaweeds, laverbread, a part of Welsh breakfast that uses a seaweed that is sometimes called nori, and a Japanese way of preservation using mirin and shoyu or tamari called tseukedane.


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Salt and Ceremony is the name of the group of 6 sessions that place during the month of December. There are live parts that get recorded, and videos associated with each session. If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend or access all of the December events, but an entire year of hundreds of new videos, events, and videos repurposed based on feedback. For $75 USD here: https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures


If you are interested in participating live in any event from now un til 12/31/2023 and watching curated videos the entire year of 2023 that will teach you how to cook, ferment, bake, preserve, and brew use the form below two register now.

This offer is only good until 12/31/2023 Eastern Time. After that, if we have available spaces, the fee will be $150 dollars for the same amazing content.


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Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

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Trois Sels

 Alex Gunuey (aka ChefAlexG) demonstrates three different types of French salt – Fleur de sel (Camargue and Guérande), sel gris (Grey salt), Sel de Salies-de-Béarn – and how he uses them.  He has several videos in the Salt and Ceremony sessions.

There are two regions that produce salt in France (and fleur de sel) The Camargue in south of France, where the river Rhone meet the Mediterranean Sea, and Britany, Sel de Guerande, known for its grey salt and flour de sel.


Salt and Ceremony is the name of the group of 6 sessions that place during the month of December. There are live parts that get recorded, and videos associated with each session. If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend or access all of the December events, but an entire year of hundreds of new videos, events, and videos repurposed based on feedback. For $75 USD here: https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures



If you are interested in participating live in any event from now un til 12/31/2023 and watching curated videos the entire year of 2023 that will teach you how to cook, ferment, bake, preserve, and brew use the form below two register now.

This offer is only good until 12/31/2023 Eastern Time. After that, if we have available spaces, the fee will be $150 dollars for the same amazing content.


Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


Using Gros Sel to make Confit

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The Role of Salt in Fermented Breads.

For the Salt and Ceremony sessions Ekta describes the role of salt in fermented bread. She compares different percentages of salt to the same sourdough bread recipe.

The Role of Salt in Fermented Breads

Ekta Maheshwari is an ex-consumer market researcher whose interest in Sourdough baking and a life-changing move from India to Toronto led her to the kitchens of Prairie Boy Bread (a sourdough bakery).

Her quest to learn more about sustainable eating led her to work with Dawn of Evelyn’s Crackers (Whole-grain bakery) whose work has been an immense source of inspiration for her. 

Ekta sees food as a lens to learning more about the intricacies of the world. Food has also been a medium for her to connect cultures and navigate the experience of being a first-generation immigrant.

She also hosts Sourdough baking workshops for beginners which she plans to resume soon. Find her on Instagram @gulp.fiction to learn more. 


Salt and Ceremony is the name of the group of 6 sessions that place during the month of December. There are live parts that get recorded, and videos associated with each session. If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend or access all of the December events, but an entire year of hundreds of new videos, events, and videos repurposed based on feedback. For $75 USD here: https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures



Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


If you are interested in participating live in any event from now un til 12/31/2023 and watching curated videos the entire year of 2023 that will teach you how to cook, ferment, bake, preserve, and brew use the form below two register now.

This deal is only good until 12/31/2023 Eastern Time. After that, if we have available spaces, the fee will be $150 dollars for the same amazing content.


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Forged Family Ferments for Comrades of a Pagan Persuasion 

Using a handful of Autumnal & Early Winter Ingredients, Savage Craic brings you funky fermented flavours to enhance your bespoke traditions & create your own holiday feast rituals. This includes Celeriac & Beetroot with Cacao & Chili , and a fennel and juniper Brussel Sprout Tops ferment.

Llewyn Máire (they/ she) is a queer microbial steward, chef, maker and intersectional witch — currently fermenting food and sound in the Republic of Ireland. 

They curate food and art with their life partner, Lisa Newman, as 2 Gyrlz, make sound as Sardonik Grin, and bring fermentation to their community as Savage Craic. 


Serve Symbiotic Realness & Cultivate Environments conducive to Change 

Salt and Ceremony is the name of the group of 6 sessions that place during the month of December. There are live parts that get recorded, and lots of videos associated with each session. If you purchase an annual membership you not only get to attend or access all of the December events, but an entire year of hundreds of new videos, events, and videos repurposed based on our member’s feedback. For only $75 USD.


Annual Membership from 12/01/2022 – 12/31/2023 plus all events and videos

Annual Membership includes access to any event in 2022 and 2023, including all the Salt and Ceremony sessions and associated videos, and the video archives from now until the end of 2023

$75.00


If you are interested in participating live in any event from now un til 12/31/2023 and watching curated videos the entire year of 2023 that will teach you how to cook, ferment, bake, preserve, and brew use the form below two register now.

This deal is only good until 12/31/2023 Eastern Time. After that, if we have available spaces, the fee will be $150 dollars for the same amazing content.


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https://www.paypal.me/FermentsandCultures


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