Thursday, May 21, 2026

Fermentation & Pickling Class

Today I helped with the fermentation & pickling workshop hosted by the Kohala Ono Food Hui. We made sweet cucumber pickles, mak kim chee, & sauerkraut. Sandra was the main workshop leader with Michele & I assisting.  

Sandra leads class in reading info on fermentation & pickling.
Sandra demonstrates testing pH of sauerkraut she made a month ago.
Chopped won bok being brined in gray tubs.
Students & instructors.
The final products.

I started rewatching The Imperial Coroner this evening; this is the one that got me started down the rabbit hole. The things that got me interested in this series was the diagrams of the coroners report & how Chu Chu the coroner & Commandery Prince An role play the attack on the victim to try to figure out what happened.

Chu Chu inspects corpse & identifies what she has found.
Commandery Prince An plays role of murderer while Chu Chu acts as victim.

The Hanzi is interspersed with the regular listening portions of the Mandarin lessons on Duolingo. Here is the Hanzi for the words "this is". In this exercise they are showing the stroke order for the 2nd component of the phrase. One thing I have noticed is that the Mandarin word order is like English word order, not like ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi where the order is reversed for when using adjectives. 


Episode 48 of the eruption of Kīlauea is currently forecast to begin some time between the 24th & the 26th.


Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Clancy!

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