kombucha

they made a smoothie today of young coconut, mango, and agave syrup. it was quite nice. for dinner, there was a venison stew that must have had red wine in it -- rich, with clear flavour and meat fork-tender without being mushy, it was a tremendous comfort food served with basmati rice and a coconut curry soup. over dinner, we concluded that the broiled skate would have been more classically accompanied by a brown butter instead of a mignonette, but that fussing with these piddling details would be churlish. the team also made a simple and inspired salad of strawberries and grapefruit with mint. clark made my night by sneaking up behind me while i was in line for some cucumber with a large, apparently empty olive jar that on closer inspection proved to contain a mat of kombucha culture.