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> Most ancient recipes call for whole small fatty fish to be layered between herbs and salt in concrete vats. Palacios’ team used large glass fermenting vessels
by interestica 5y ago
> Most ancient recipes call for whole small fatty fish to be layered between herbs and salt in concrete vats. Palacios’ team used large glass fermenting vessels.
There's a future where the art of charred oak barrel bourbon is lost and scientists try to recreate it in glass vessels....
- slowmovintarget 5y agoSomewhat related to this article, though it seems you're commenting on something else: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/recoving-the-recipe-for-garum-180978846/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/recoving-the-rec...
- gradschoolfail 5y agoExcept, great irony, in TFA, it was the glass vessels and not the other ones which had bits of the walls going into solution and helping to make the other amino acids. Eventually perhaps giving rise to oak trees. Doesnt look like it to a lowly primate, but glass has a hallowed place in the cosmos, cherry oak is a fucking upstart
- kevinmchugh 5y agoI think you ended up on the wrong thread
- interestica 5y agoYeah what. How did that happen. There's no redemption here or some tangential way I can relate this....
- jrootabega 5y agoThere's probably some cosmic horror that just seeds barren planets with life to give them a nice umami flavor. Life is just Cthulhu's fish sauce.