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THE MORTALITY OF CHEESE // Part Three: The Fly is Life
The scent of sticky lanolin on my hands from the udder of a Sardinian ewe teaches me the value of life itself in a visit to makers of a natural starter…
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THE MORTALITY OF CHEESE // Part Two: Out of sight, out of rind
Herding goats in Provence and making natural cheese with the François and Vanessa Masto gets me thinking about belonging, provenance and that cheese is…
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THE MORTALITY OF CHEESE // Part One: We are what we eat, we are what we make
Herding and making natural lactic cheeses in the dry region of Provence in southern France reminds me that real food is ephemeral and as mortal as its…
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IS HYGIENE RUINING OUR TRADITIONAL FOODS? PART ONE
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MOSTARDA 'd POME // Valdengo // Piemonte // ITALY
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part two - EATING CAT, RABBIT, HORSE AND ILLEGAL BUTTER // In Defence Of The Mountain
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WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN? // Smoked Irish Wild Atlantic Salmon PART ONE
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THE MORTALITY OF CHEESE // Part One: We are what we eat, we are what we make
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WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN? // Smoked Irish Wild Atlantic Salmon PART TWO
A story of I when I went draft net fishing for wild Atlantic Salmon with the fishers of the munster Blackwater and smoked the catch on a hill in West…
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WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN? // Smoked Irish Wild Atlantic Salmon PART ONE
A story of I when I went draft net fishing for wild Atlantic Salmon with the fishers of the munster Blackwater and smoked the catch on a hill in West…
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IS HYGIENE RUINING OUR TRADITIONAL FOODS? PART TWO
The second of a two-part introductory essay looking at our suppressed food potential, misplaced trust, the undermining of artisans and why I think…
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IS HYGIENE RUINING OUR TRADITIONAL FOODS? PART ONE
A two-part introductory essay looking at our suppressed food potential, misplaced trust, the undermining of artisans and why I think illegal food is the…
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FAGIOLATA part one // Camburzano // Piemonte // ITALY
Original community street food, this wet bean stew cooked in the copper pots used to make cheese is an example of mountain food alchemy. Looks like…
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part three EATING CAT, RABBIT, HORSE AND ILLEGAL BUTTER // In Defence Of The Mountain
How the secret pre-alpine tradition of eating cats feeds my changing world-view.
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part two - EATING CAT, RABBIT, HORSE AND ILLEGAL BUTTER // In Defence Of The Mountain
A three-part reflection on the discovery of taboo traditions that are steeped in the complex and harmonious routines of pre-alpine survival culture.
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A real-time traditional food conservation project for the active remembering, revival and perpetuation of our disappearing food heritage
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