Making Miso & Meeting Koji
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Fumiha Tanaka
Inviting an ancient practice into your life: creating dialogue with microorganisms through fermentation
SunThis course is open to non-AV students.
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Sunday, February 18th, 2024 from 10am-3pm in New Paltz
“To me, making miso is a ceremony. I like to make them with friends and family, so the miso can listen to our laughs and feel our hands while we are mixing. It is a relationship I create with food and people around me. Everybody’s miso tastes different, depending on their state of life, and environment and that’s the beauty of 'homemade.' Our life and love gets infused in Miso. Sometimes they taste so sweet and mild, sometimes they taste really salty or even sour! They all taste really good in different ways. I love giving my miso away as a gift because they are an extension of me.”
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- Fumiha Tanaka
About This Class
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Miso has been a Japanese staple ingredient for centuries. Miso is made using Koji, Aspergillus Oryze, which is also used to create many other important Japanese ancestral foods such as soy sauce, mirin, and sake. In this workshop, we will explore the intimate dialogue we can create with Koji, a sacred living mold that has been protected and handed down over generations from our ancestors.
Fumiha will introduce ways to use Koji in everyday life, and teach you how to make delicious miso at home. You will spend the day engaging in discussion, tastings, and hands-on learning, and you will leave with homemade miso and new recipes to try!
This knowledge share includes:
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Brief history of koji and miso from a Japanese perspective.
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Introduction to how koji is made.
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Ways to incorporate koji into daily life and practice spiritual connection to food.
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Demonstration of preparations and steps to make miso without plastic.
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Tastings of various kinds of miso.
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Tastings of other things made with koji (Amazake, koji pickles, koji water…etc)
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Tips on making miso soup.
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Recipes using miso and koji.
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Handouts with instructions.
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8 oz homemade miso to take home, made with organic soy beans.
Attendees should bring:
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Apron
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Notepad and pen
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Lunch
*This is a hands-on class.
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Tiered Investment
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General Admission: $175
This tier is at the market rate and reflects the true cost of the service, labor, and expertise of producing the workshop. This price point allows us to generate a profit for the teacher and the school. We encourage those with access to wealth to opt for this tier as it enables ArborVitae to offer more tickets at an accessible price.
Sustainable Admission: $155
This tier reflects the cost of our service, labor, and expertise required to produce the workshop and allows us to make a small profit. We encourage those to opt for a Sustainable Ticket if the price point of a General Ticket is prohibitive.
Solidarity Admission: $135
This tier reflects our intention to make our workshops open for all! We want all members of our community to enjoy our educational opportunities no matter their financial situation. Opt for the Solidarity ticket if General or Sustainable is not accessible to you right now.
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ArborVitae Current Student & Alumni Admission: $100
This tier is for current ArborVitae students and alumni that have successfully completed all 3 years and received their diploma.
If your financial situation prevents you from attending this workshop, please contact Fumiha at fmtishere@gmail.com to discuss an investment amount that is right for you.
Your Instructor
Fumiha Tanaka
Fumiha Tanaka, alumni of ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism, was born and raised in Japan, Indonesia, and Singapore, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Her experience growing up as a minority away from her ancestral home has allowed her to understand what it feels like to long for home and connection with our ancestors, and brought her to work with trauma and empowerment of herself and others on different levels. She is a practitioner of Clinical Herbalism, Flower Essences, Conscious Breathwork, Sourcepoint therapy, Usui Reiki and Earth Evolution Reiki, IET (Integrated Energy Therapy), and Medical Intuition, and for which she utilizes healing modalities from different indigenous traditions and weaves them into her work with plants. She is a proud student of plants, constantly in awe with what she learns about them, and enjoys connecting with their spirits through drawing and writing.
Cancellation & Refund Policies
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Cancellation Policy
Should we need to cancel class, you will be notified via email with a minimum of 24 hours’ notice. You will receive a full refund for the cost of the class.
Refund Policy
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If the situation arises that you need to cancel your registration for a class, please notify ArborVitae immediately by emailing admin@arborvitaeny.com.
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Anyone canceling their registration at least 7 full calendar days prior to the start of the class will be given a full refund minus any admin and/or payment processing fees that were incurred.
Late Notice
Due to our classes having limited enrollment, cancellations made less than 7 full calendar days prior to the start of the class are nonrefundable. If we are able to fill your spot with someone from the waitlist a full refund will be given minus any admin and/or payment processing fees that were incurred.
Substitutions
Registrations can be transferred to another participant at any time up until the start of class. In this case, the initial registrant should notify ArborVitae with the new participant's name, email address, and phone number as soon as possible. New participants will be required to complete any required registration paperwork.
No Show
Registrations for those that do not attend class without prior notice are nonrefundable.