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 ==== Biochymickal Arts 2013 ====
 ==== biochemistry / biology / bacteriology ====
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 ==== biohacking ====
+  * [[A Biopunk Manifesto]]
   * "WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BIOHACKERS"
   * foodhacking >> download the PDF of FoodPhreaking #0 here >> http://www.foodphreaking.com/issue0pdf/Food_Phreaking.pdf (~15 mb)
   * E. chromi - Living Colour from Bacteria >> http://www.daisyginsberg.com/projects/echromi.html
   * The Synthetic Kingdom >> http://www.daisyginsberg.com/projects/synthetickingdom.html
+{{http://www.daisyginsberg.com/images/synthetickingdom/SyntheticKingdom_TreeofLIfe.gif}}
 ==== fermentation ====
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 ==== 20130913 ====
   * making PDA to prepare plates
-  * preparing plates, microwave pasteurisation.
+  * preparing plates, microwave pasteurisation (sub 120ºC sterilisation?)
   * reading list and library subsection
+  * preparing cultures from 3x3 ferments (see above)
+  * cooking, eating, drinking (with various toasts)
+==== 20130914 ====
+  * maria's introduction to fermentaion
 ====links and references====
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   * "Setting Up a Microbiology Lab" http://www.indiebiotech.com/?page_id=53
   * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Biochemistry
+  * "Chymists and Chymistry. Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry" >> http://www.shpusa.com/shp_books/chymists-and-chymistry/
 fermentation
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   * more info on funazushi (scroll down to posts on "funazushi" and "tench") http://tarantinofoodvice.wordpress.com/category/japan/
   * more info on kishk. http://tarantinofoodvice.wordpress.com/category/fermentation/
+  * La Paillasse: Paris Open Biotech Lab wiki with protocols http://www.lapaillasse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Accueil
-a part of the [[splinterfields]] series
+==== ongoing questions & open loops ====
+  * how effective is a microwave for sterilisation? pressure cooker as autoclave?
+  * good recipes for stains?
+  * GFP and/or Luciferase?
+  * can we determine vitamin content of fermentations? what increases/inhibits vitamins?
+  * which Lactobacillus are able to produce vitamin C (see: L-ascorbate biosynthesis I,  L-ascorbate biosynthesis II)?
+  * which microorganisms can be chosen to increase vitamin production or production of specific amino acids
+  * what sort of things can be done in a 'kitchen lab' and what needs more specialised analytic equipment?
+  * good reference for korean techniques?
+  * "How can we reboot the ascorbate synthesis pathway in humans?"
+==== Food ====
+Menu Spinterfields Friday evening 13.09.2013
+**Starter** assorti of the various grasses from the salty fields at Saint Valery sour Somme (aster, salikornia, saltwort, atriplex hortensis, halimione)
+served with the pulp of the organic Brussels tomatoes
+**Soup** broth from the fermented and then preserved greenery from the garden with potatoes, carrots beetroot, onion and garlic.
+**Main corse** lightly (~4h) fermented chicory cooked in the sauce of fried oil, garlic, onions, apples, honey and La Mahleur beer served with oven baked autumn vegetables ( potatoes, parsnip, turnip, pumpkin, garlic) coated in olive oil, sesame oil, lemon soy sauce.
+**Dessert** two days old fermented verbena kefir drink
+**Saturday Lunch**: Autumn Miso soup with kale, carrots, mushrooms and tofu Bio bread with Chick pea hummus and Red beet hummus
+**Saturday Dinner**: Seitan stew with prunes in a trappist beer sauce
+Oven baked mashed potatoes with carrots and spinach Lentil salad with fresh herbs
+Green mixed salad with vinaigrette
+**Sunday Lunch**: Quiche with pumpkin, mushrooms, apples, nuts and smoked tempeh Green mixed salad with vinaigrette