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Notes from the embers and the road
What you learn cooking outside, here and elsewhere. Technique, matter, field notes — written from Góis and wherever the work leads.
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Matter · 3 October 2026
Raspberry kombucha mocktail smoked with Vanilla & Black Tea
A raspberry second ferment, a Vanilla & Black Tea Élixir bead: the first time I've managed to get smoke into my kombucha.
What fermentation is doing in my barbecue
Sourdough, kombucha, pickles: why you see me spending so much time on jars when fire is what I work with.
The fire bowl is a cooking tool, not garden furniture
Grillrost's fire bowl, and what its design says about cooking outdoors.
Foil-packet cooking on the barbecue
Healthy, flavour-packed barbecue
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Every now and then
What happens around the fire, on no fixed schedule. No promotions, no ten-part series.