Josh is a potter, open source programmer, avid food geek, former pastry chef, and serious home cook. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
One of the biggest reasons to eat Georgian food is khachipuri, known as "the pizza of Eastern Europe". Like pizza, khachipuri is more of a whole category than a specific recipe; I think there are as many recipes are there are Georgian surnames. This year's khachipuri was based on an…
Read More"When life hands you plums, make tkemali." A year and a half ago friends in Southern Oregon had a preposterous bounty of plums, so many they were breaking branches on the trees. So many, in fact, that my relatives still have frozen quarts of plum juice and pulp. So when…
Read MoreThe last of the Christmas/Hanukkah orders are shipped out. If you didn't get around to ordering yet: sorry! I won't be shipping more pottery orders until January 3.…
Read More(this is a reprint of a recipe post from 2 years ago) For Christmas Eve dinner this year I decided on a "Russian Jewish" theme. Partly this was out of a desire to have all of he food ready and waiting well before our guests were due…
Read More... continued from part 1 One glaze I used to have when I fired cone 10 electric which I really miss was one I called Verdigris. It was based on a Val Cushing Cornwall stone matt glaze recipe, with tin and copper so that the glaze was actually bronze: I've been…
Read MoreFolks who have visited me at a booth or Open Studios know that I make my own glazes. I find commercial glazes to be both inferior and exhorbitantly expensive, and I learned pottery back when they simply weren't available. So it's all glazes I formulate, or mix based on others'…
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