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,...
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticlePlacing 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...
View ArticleBrave 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleOur 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....
View Article‘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...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleFinding 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...
View ArticleThis 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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