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Is this what viability feels like?

These days, more often than not, I’m missing thoughts to write in this blog. Sure, week by week I’ve scrape together sentences… and there’s usually something glinting in them, something sharp,...

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All my worries

And on reflection, perhaps someone else’s worries, too… What have I just done? have I fucked it all up? I’ve fucked it all up. the downward spiral… this is it. I’ve committed to too much… how will I...

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Placing our faith in tubers

I ordered a whole heap of turmeric, ginger and galangal tubers for our garden. Looking at them now, I’m dubious they’ll ever shoot green and grow. They’re so damn dormant. So unviable-looking. Turmeric...

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Brave ones like you

The below statements are all based on actual conversations. Some (not all), are definitely about us. Everything’s possible pre-launch, that is, before an idea goes live. We’ll get hundreds of people to...

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A Letter to the First

Dear whoever you are, I’ve never done this before, that is, tried to evoke you. But this opportunity matters to me more than all the others. The Ingredient Challenge. I’m petrified that we’ll put it...

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Our commitment to farmers, food sovereignty and mitigating climate change

What else is there to talk about when the country is on fire? We knew the country was on fire, before it literally burst into flames. Back then, we couldn’t always see it, but we could hope it wasn’t....

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‘Localising not Westernising’ in The Ingredient Challenge

After an email from a loyal customer of ours, caring enough to write, the following correspondence took place. It might answer questions for more, so we’re publishing it  here (anonymously, except for...

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I don’t wake up at 3am anymore, because I dream of you.

Talking with one of my food maker friends a couple weeks ago, I said, Fear is leading your decisions! Where’s the room for dreaming? Of course fear was leading her. And I made it sound easy to shove it...

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Finding our boiling point

Making a business is like boiling water. Friction is required. You hope it’s not. You hope that this still water pot, this tepid body will simply – phut! – turn to steam. But without heat, without the...

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This new normal

This may seem odd to some of you who have seen Wandering Cooks kicking some serious arse on a Friday night, but I don’t take easily to making money. It’s taken a lot of money to get where Cooks was 3...

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