Food & Beverage

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Talking Sake With the Pros

Talking Sake With the Pros

In the current issue of MAKE, Alastair Bland writes about how the amateur sake fan can brew the beverage at home. Before the story came out, a group of MAKE staffers headed over to the excellent Hana restaurant in Rohnert Park, Calif. for some Japanese food and sake. It was a tough assignment. While there, I asked sake sommelier Stuart Morris and visiting sake brewer Daijiro Hosaka how sake was made. Morris, by the way, is the sixth non-Japanese “master of sake” in the world. Did the experts think sake can be made at home? Watch our interview to find out. Then pick up a copy of MAKE and see if you can brew your own.

Today on Food Makers: Wild Food Forager Langdon Cook

Today on Food Makers: Wild Food Forager Langdon Cook

Today on Food Makers, a Google+ hangout on air, I’ll be joined by Langdon Cook. Langdon is the author of Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager. It’s a great book about, well, living off the fat of the land and foraging for food in the wild. In addition to being a writer (check out his delicious blog), Langdon is a teaches classes on wild foods and the outdoors. He has been profiled inBon Appetit, WSJ magazine, Martha Stewartโ€™s Whole Living, and Salon.com, and his writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Sunset, Grayโ€™s Sporting Journal, and Seattle Magazin