“But when it comes to preparing South Korea’s national dish, there are myriad modi operandi and many subtleties even within those. Each region in the country has its own trademark pickled pizzazz. The further you stray from Seoul, the more […]
This essay is from 2009 and much of this still feels novel. I guess paradigms take time to shift. Or is it gradually, then suddenly? “I present here examples of what in my mind constitute paradigm shifts and drifts in […]
This post is on a microbiology blog, so bacteria take center stage. “Human consumption of fermented milk likely goes back thousands of years to the dawn of civilization, when milk-producing animals were first domesticated. The reason seems obvious, without refrigeration […]