My neighbor Sandor Katz, who is an author of several books on the fascinating subject of cultural revival, hired me to make a back-splash in his new teaching kitchen. In a 150-year-old log cabin on the north side of Short Mountain, he is growing a new home for the Foundation for Fermentation Fervor. Sandor is drawing from the neighborhood stable of creative talent, and rocking out this off-the-grid, solar fueled, spring watered temple to biodiversity. I am grateful to be included in the project.

Sandy is creating a space where the biological cultures and traditions of food preservation from all over the world are cultivated, proliferated, shared, imbibed and celebrated. Here are some photos documenting my little piece of the process.

Sandy's website;
 www.wildfermentation.com


glazing day, with sample tiles in the foreground~

Load the kiln~

fire it up~

some more tiles, drying under weights~

before pictures of the space~

good lookin boss~

yay! Thanks for all your help on the install, Leopard Zeppard. The pears and rutabegas and parsnips were delicious.

Foundation for Fermentation Fervor

Ocean Series

Lots of visits to aquariums last year inspired a sea series.
Everything is food safe and fully functional. It is microwave and dishwasher safe
cone 7 electric fired stoneware. Wholesale orders are gladly filled, with a 6-8 week delivery time. Email me to discuss wholesale prices.

The Octopus Bowl has a 16 inch diameter, it retails for $120.

Large trays, 13 inch x 9 inch, retail for $72.

This small jelly fish tray is 5.5 inches x 7 inches.  It retails for $42.

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 Octopi retail for $72. 9 inches x 13.

 These bowls have a 14 inch diameter. They retail for $98.

more small sea trays, $42.

 Assorted tiles; fully functional, ready to install.

Jenn Sherwood's powder room sink, in Dekalb County Tennessee. Greg Overby made the beautiful walnut cabinet, I made and installed the sink and backsplash.

woman reclining with batik blanket

Getting ready for my show with Mom. There is an artist's reception on August 18th.Yay!

Three ladies washing their hair, with socks on because its COLD!!!

cone 6 electric fired tiles

Making Yogurt Cheese

We were very lucky last Thursday to have a delivery of fresh, raw Jersey cow's milk delivered to our neighborhood. I had 4 gallons of it, and was looking for a way to use it. I ran across a cheesecake recipe in a magazine, and was inspired.

I had already made the yogurt, so I just needed to strain it. Looking around my kitchen for somewhere to hang my cheesecloth, I started thinking about the inevitable bugs. We are processing tomatoes/other garden produce like crazy, so there is bugs in my kitchen for sure. It is just part of summer, but not my favorite part.

So here was my solution, and another use for my fermentation crocks, producing a cheese that is just like cream cheese in consistency, but with a yogurt flavor. It worked in the cheesecake recipe just perfectly too. The whey, if used as the liquid in bread dough, makes the softest, sweetest, fluffiest bread.

This towel over the whole thing really effectively kept all bugs out of the cheese.

The yogurt is poured into the cheesecloth "hammock"

whey filters through, the curds are trapped in the cloth hammock

lid holds cheesecloth hammock in place, keeps out bugs

tucked up the cloth, it wicks the moisture and I HATE bugs...

 

Fish Backsplash