Rice at the Centre of the Table
In Vietnam, a common greeting is ‘ăn cơm chưa’, meaning ‘have you eaten?’, although the literal translation is ‘have you eaten rice’. Bao...
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Doug Bierend
- Sep 23, 2022
- 6 min
Renaissance of the Rotten: a rind is a terrible thing to waste
In my kitchen freezer, you will reliably find half a dozen brown paper bags filled with rotting vegetables. It‘s only a slight...
Holly Regan
- Aug 31, 2022
- 12 min
Reclaiming Rot and the Art of Waste
Holly Regan explores the abundance of waste through the work of three artists The smell of egg and scallions sizzling in umami-sweet soy...
Koby Omansky
- Aug 19, 2022
- 5 min
Root, Rot, and Riot: The Queerness of Compost
Compost is a pile of organic discard enabled by oxygen and nitrogen to become its own ecosystem, a diverse community rich with life that...
Sohel Sarkar
- Aug 3, 2022
- 13 min
The Art, Craft and (Gendered) Labour of Achaar
In the essay Cooking Women, novelist Anuradha Roy recalls her widowed aunt spending many a winter afternoon making a pickle out of...
SOURCED
- Jun 15, 2022
- 1 min
Interview: Kimberlie Le
Chloe speaks with Kimberlie Le, co-founder and CEO of Prime Roots, a company that is making meat-free deli slices using koji. Kimberlie...
SOURCED
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
SEASON 3.2: ROT
Rot might be the season we’re the most excited to dive into. On the surface ‘rot’ isn’t a very straight forward ingredient but in our...
SOURCED
- May 18, 2022
- 1 min
Interview: Charlotte Cook
Chloe sits down with brewer Charlotte Cook to talk about beer brewing, how she entered the industry and some of the science behind...
Anna Sulan Masing
- May 13, 2022
- 1 min
INTERVIEW: Fozia Ismail & Tunde Tejumola
Supperclub host, cultural thinking and writer Fozia Ismail speaks to Tunde Tejumola who created Suyaman food & drink brand. Recently...
Joanna Lobo
- May 11, 2022
- 9 min
The Tree of Life
Mahua is the world's only clear spirit distilled from a sweet flower. It enfolds legends, history, culture and struggle in its sharp...
Anna Sulan Masing
- May 7, 2022
- 1 min
Interview: Rosalind Cooper
Anna interviewed Rosalind Cooper, wine writer and author who has recently launched a project around rosé, a drink she feels is not always...
SOURCED
- May 6, 2022
- 1 min
Interview: Feroz Gajia
When curating alcohol season Anna and I felt like it was really important to also discuss abstention from alcohol. Operating in the UK...
Zac Jones-Gomez
- May 3, 2022
- 8 min
Sober Queer Spaces: inclusivity, resistance & joy
Image: Author's own, at The Standard Beer in Cincinnati, Ohio, which had (at time of visiting in 2021) had a non & low alcohol craft beer...
Simone Lai
- May 3, 2022
- 7 min
Vermouth: a history of changing attitudes towards alcohol, health and pleasure
Cafe Elena sits on the corner of the monumental square Piazza Vittorio by the Po river which divides the east side of Turin’s city centre...
SOURCED
- Apr 29, 2022
- 7 min
San Miguel Beer: A Story of Filipino Beer, a Story of the Philippines (Part Two)
This is the second piece of this two-part story. Read San Miguel Beer: A Story of Filipino Beer, a Story of the Philippines (Part One),...
Mark Corbyn
- Apr 27, 2022
- 8 min
San Miguel Beer: A Story of Filipino Beer, a Story of the Philippines (Part One)
1890. A crazy dream. A group of Spaniards have a crazy idea: to open the first brewery in South-East Asia, a place where practically...
Anna Sulan Masing
- Apr 1, 2022
- 1 min
Interview: Jason Williams
Anna speaks to Jason Williams, from Creative Proof. When thinking about sourcing and sustainability it's important to think about how to...
Kulleh Grasi
- Mar 4, 2022
- 3 min
Tuak dan ambai // Tuak and ambai, the lovers
Written in Malay and Iban, translation to English by Pauline Fan Intimnya tanah dengan benih tidak terjadi dengan sedenting mantra....
Anna Sulan Masing
- Feb 25, 2022
- 1 min
Interview: Vidya Balachander
Food and travel journalist and editor Vidya Balachander chats with Anna about how drinks are enjoyed in different location, the globe...
Israel Meléndez Ayala
- Feb 18, 2022
- 8 min
Persisting and resisting: when alcohol is more than commodity
“Hotel Lacks Corkscrews in Condado-Vanderbilt and Won't Serve ‘Set-Ups' Either—Cañita is Powerful but Awful,” says a New York Times...
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