'Recovery of Traditional Technologies I': A Comparative Study of Past and Present Fermentation and Associated Distillation Technologies in Eurasia and Their Roots'

The present 2-year project is part of a larger 5-year effort to research traditional food processing techniques and technologies in Mongolia, Taiwan, Turkey, Japan, Korea and Mexico. This will include as an area of particular emphasis the production of fermented and distilled beverages. The project will combine fieldwork, textual research and laboratory science to understand not only the past of such things as fermentation and distillation in areas researched but the present application of the traditional techniques and technologies as well. Nachtrag