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Preserving
Fermentation is the ultimate preserving method: lacto-fermentation, kimchi, vinegar pickles, chutneys are all good for your gut; but preserving means also exploring everyday ingredients anew, creating jams, curds, and even dehydrating food for a crisp taste that is good for you.
Drinks
Serving chilled fizzy kombucha on a hot summer’s day, blending botanicals in your gin or making mulled cider for an autumn gathering will elevate the experience of sharing food. The artisan kitchen isn’t complete without a home-made drink to pair with the food on your menu.
Dairy
Learn how to make homemade yogurt and feta-style cheese; delve into the secrets of butter de-emulsification for an enhanced taste and cooking experience. Cheese-making is an artisan craft that takes complete kitchen commitment and a degree of romantic infatuation.
Bread
Once you have a dough at your fingertips, the world is your bakery. Start by creating your own sourdough starter, and enter the crispy world of yeast fermentation. You'll find yourself kneading and baking sourdough bread, focaccia, naan, dosa and flatbread in no time!
Potting
The potential to bring a fresh perspective to this ancient preserving method will allow you to play at being a food historian while challenging yourself with new ideas. Slow-cook in oil or fat for a perfect French confit, make potted mushrooms and give your meal a rich consistency.
Curing
Curing is a way to change radically your everyday food into salty gold and fill the kitchen with culinary gemstones: dry curing, wet curing, and salt curing techniques can add to your artisan kitchen the flavors of homemade sausages, bresaola, gravlax, ham, chorizo, salami...
Smoking
Smoke doesn’t have to be reserved just for salmon or bacon: whether it’s cold-smoking or thanks to a hot smoker, these old school artisan kitchen techniques can be used to bring another layer of taste to delicate ingredients such as cheese curds, flowers, or even ice.
Outdoor Cooking
Take your BBQs to the next level! For most cooks, the campfire is their introduction to an outdoor kitchen. Spit-roasting, grilling, making a pizza in a wood-oven... the simple techniques you learn when cooking outdoors stay with you forever and are memories to be treasured.