Baking with cinnamon, things to consider
Firstly, let me explain a little about the interaction between cinnamon, yeast, and heat...
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Dan Lepard
- Sep 4, 2021
- 8 min
Britain’s Story of Cinnamon: a look through the cookbooks
It’s curious, given Britain’s once dominant position in the cinnamon trade...
Nikhita Venugopal
- Aug 28, 2021
- 7 min
What spice means to gin
There’s an ancient legend, a story told by Greek and Roman scholars, about a large mythical bird in India and the Arabian peninsula that...
Clarissa Wei
- Aug 24, 2021
- 3 min
An Ode to Taiwanese Cinnamon (阿里山土肉桂)
In much of the Western world, cinnamon is grated and added liberally to desserts and swirled into breads. But in Taiwan, it’s used as a...
Anna Sulan Masing
- Aug 17, 2021
- 5 min
CINNAMON: the making of myths and legends
Cinnamon is a spice of stories. I asked Twitter what people’s favourite food or drinks with cinnamon were and the response I got was...
SOURCED
- Aug 11, 2021
- 3 min
2.3 CINNAMON
Welcome to the first season that focuses on an ingredient that you would keep in your cupboard! Water and Soil season were somewhat all...
Sejal Sukhadwala
- Aug 1, 2021
- 4 min
Onion Pakora Weather
Editors' note: This piece has been a long time coming and is the product of collaborative creativity. Sourced has always been a project...
Joseph Pilgrim
- Jul 28, 2021
- 8 min
Holiday 'Home': Rum Punch and the Diaspora
Rum punch - not a paradise cocktail to be sipped poolside but words inextricably linked by seafaring merchants on a devastating colonial...
Anja Madhvani
- Jul 28, 2021
- 8 min
India Pale Ale, a name to be reckoned with
Writer and beer industry worker Anja Madhvani looks at how IPA was named after its sea-voyaged destination of India and its place in the...
Chelsea Carter
- Jul 23, 2021
- 5 min
The Cockles of My Heart: a modern history
Everyday around the world, people’s lives are shaped by water. We can begin to gain a better understanding of how precious our waters are...
Anna Sulan Masing
- Jul 19, 2021
- 1 min
Interview: Chanchala Gunewardena
Anna speaks to Chanchala Gunewardena, Founder /CEO Kimbula Kithul, about how taking her product across oceans and seas is the way to...
Chloe-Rose Crabtree
- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
Who Feeds London?
Water season has us looking at how food moves with people as they migrate overseas. Historically this migration has happened for many...
Yvonne Maxwell
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
It Travelled with Me, within Me
My mother is one of the few people I know that is in constant pursuit of perfection. Each action, movement and activity has a defined...
Anna Sulan Masing
- Jun 1, 2021
- 1 min
Interview: Doug Bierend
The great thing about having ingredient lead seasons is that it allows us to approach big topics, with a very specific focus. Anna spoke...
Anna Sulan Masing
- Apr 13, 2021
- 2 min
Interview: Catherine Chong
Chloe-Rose and Anna Sulan were joined by Catherine Chong to talk about farming and sustainability, with a particular focus on water. It...
Hollie Stephens
- Apr 3, 2021
- 5 min
Something in the Water – How Burton’s Beer Scene Boomed
The small market town of Burton Upon Trent in Staffordshire, England is world-famous among brewers, all thanks to its water. For...
SOURCED
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
2.2 Water
The Sourced Water season focuses in on two major questions about water and its role in our culinary systems: As an ingredient, how does...
Yasmin Güleç
- Mar 30, 2021
- 10 min
Re-thinking a Turkish identity: food as geography and being rooted in mobility
“We can talk about culinary culture but attributing nationalities to dishes is futile. Food has geography not nationality,” - chef Musa...
Anna Sulan Masing
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Interview: Seth Klann
I first spoke to Seth about a year ago, for a piece about whisky - it was a panicked turn around for a mag to go to print, but then the...
Chloe-Rose Crabtree
- Mar 25, 2021
- 2 min
Interview: Clarissa Wei
This season's focus on Soil has had us look at the earth in a variety of ways: Soil/land as property, soil as a place of cultivation,...
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