![My Fascination With Wood Ash Glazes](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/bucket-of-ash-from-mipposto-seattle-and-Forest-wood-ash-glaze-on-2-gallon-vessel-980x490.jpg)
People ask me about my fascination with wood ash glazes. They wonder why I bother. There is much labor involved in using them, and they often produce flaws in the firing ...
![Collaboration with Sake Nomi: Celebrating Sake Culture](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Dune-collage-1-980x490.jpeg)
Collaboration with Sake Nomi
Today I want to share with you my new friendship with Jonnie and Taiko, the owners of Sake Nomi, the sake bar in Seattle that is central to many ...
![Wood Ash Glaze and the Circle of a Tree’s Life](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/01-forest-vessel-980x490.jpeg)
This is a behind-the-scenes look at the wood-ash glazes I use here in the studio – about how the beautiful surfaces of these ceramic vessels come to be, and about how that ...
![Kimchi in Spaaaaace??!!](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/kimchi-in-space-1-980x497.jpg)
Yes! It’s not a joke! Over the past few years, kimchi has been seen more often in shops and restaurants, showing it’s not just a local trend, but is a part of a growing ...
![Ceramics and Ethics – Celebration of Chefs](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/acb03083-086f-4765-8bc3-51e602eff374-1-980x490.jpg)
Last summer I had the pleasure of meeting a group of talented chefs while teaching a fermentation workshop in Mexico. Although I have been privileged to work with chefs ...
![Earliest Evidence of Fermenting vessels](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/unnamed-2-e1589235916505.jpg)
It’s lovely to be writing to you again! It is particularly exciting because this installment is coming from our newly remodeled studio. It has been a full spring here at ...
![The oldest chocolate drink found in ceramic vessels](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pouring-vessel.jpeg)
In our last post we learned about 9,000 year-old traces of beer-wine found in ceramic vessels in Jiahu, China, and also about the 8,000-year history of Georgian winemaking in ...
![Fermented Drinks in Ancient Ceramic Vessels](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Jiahu-skeleton-with-vessels1.jpeg)
In this first post of the series I would like to highlight two ancient traditions of making fermented drinks. The first is a Georgian method of making wine in enormous ...
![Primeval Fermenting in Ancient Ceramics and Us](https://www.inferment.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/african-yogurt-e1589236018369.jpg)
I’m very pleased to introduce a series of posts, in collaboration with Erik Painter, Ricardo Hasse and myself, which is a series of posts, which highlight the ancient history ...