💥 Ferment fates + golden curry plates >>

Hi friends,

I’m seeing notes of Spring around the corner and making the most of cold weather produce as the season changes. In my fermentation class over the weekend we were hands-on with sauerkraut–a cruciferous exploration in cabbage and an age old preservation method, a practice in legacy recipes. Wishing I could share the aroma of the workshop–carrot, turmeric, ginger, and garlic intertwining between orange stained palms and kosher salt. In the colder months, this brightly colored ferment offers some much needed warmth to the grey days. A reminder of winter vegetable versatility and endurance when pining for the ripe abundance of warmer seasonality.

While fermentation is explicitly an enzyme-driven chemical breakdown to facilitate metabolic reaction, it is more so a symbol of duality. This reactive symbiosis a careful balance between life and death, I am all too aware we are impeding time to capture an ingredient in all its essence. The slightest change in air circulation, temperature, material can alter the course of a successful ferment. A precarious swing of the pendulum we see now as our own environments are shifting so drastically.

How might we capture our own humanity before this influx of external change? To salt-pack our resiliency to last through a harsh season? Comparing community and cabbage and all I can come up with are fart jokes in this hour of uncertainty. 

If you too funk with ferments, reply back and let me know what’s bubbling.

Stay hungry,
Hawnuh Lee | Founder, Closed Loop Cooking

Golden curry with simmered tofu.

The dish >>

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Apologies y’all–no feature this week! Lots of excitement happening behind the scenes though, so stay tuned! You can follow @closedloop_studio for more BTS action.

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