Microbial Magic and Other Stories
Kōbo Fermentary, Shivani UnakarThoughts, experiments, rabbit holes I’m down, research, general life.
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1: Shepherding Microbes
In Feb 2025 we went to see the Living Lightly festival by the Center for Pastoralism. We still think about it all the time. Recently, we were chatting about the parallels between pastoral shepherding and fermentation (aka shepherding microb...
Sensory Overwhelm
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How my brain feels right now.
I am drinking a (bad) espresso doppio while I write this. In a cafe. Someone I know recommends working from a cafe to increase productivity. It’s supposed to be the...
Late Night Musings
Ok, so once every 3 weeks it looks like it is? I’m working on the backlog for you to have every week. My friend Bharti, who convinced me to start the newsletter, thinks I should just have fun with it, and not stress about the frequency and...
A rant about
I know… no newsletter the last 3 weekends. My brain exhausts me sometimes. This time because it’s too fast and in rapid information collection mode. And I don’t have the brainspace to put stuff down. But anyway, I plan to build up a bank of...
Meditation on Meditation
Ok, I guess it’s late Sunday already, but here’s the newsletter for this weekend. My brain is brilliant, but I can’t regulate it. One of the things I can’t regulate is time. I promise you’ll have one most weekends. Don’t give me grief over...
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Shepherd of Microbes. Neurodivergent brain infodumping about fermentation since 2001. Into microbes… perhaps a bit too much. Expert handholder of very specific things.
food researcher. flavour curious. often licking and tasting things. can be found at desk, in field, at market, or down obscure research rabbit holes. once hosted an interview show called The Food Web. puzzle nerd, podcast listener, bangalore girl.
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