Pomegranate Sauerkraut

Translating Texture and Color into Magic (plus a book giveaway!)

Process pieces is a series for paid subscribers that explores my writing and cooking processes, and I encourage you to comment with your own processes if you feel so called. I hope you enjoy!

My recipe uses purple cabbage, my drawing uses green. That’s part of the magic of fermentation: You can make each recipe your own!

This recipe is a sneak preview from The Magic of Fermentation, my new fermentation oracle deck which will be out next year (I cannot WAIT to announce the illustrator to you, they are absolutely perfect!)

But this is also a chance to reflect on the unique task of writing a work that is part divination and inspiration, and part practical guidance. How do we combine the two? How do we balance them? It's a task that's quite different from much of the creative nonfiction, historical research, and recipe + headnotes writing I do, so it's really refreshing and fun to reflect on the process itself, and perhaps help other food writers tackling similar such projects.

And, in celebration of handing in the manuscript for my new deck, I'm giving away two copies each of The Hidden Cosmos: A Fermentation Oracle + Recipe Deck to two lucky readers.
That's one for you, and one for a friend!

I've put details on how to enter at the end of this post.