Ken Albala's Pottery Rant

Saturday, April 2, 2022

Neriage Ware and Another Firing

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  The key to this technique is either taking two pieces of different color clay without wedging together then throwing, or cutting into squa...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Im a little tea pot

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 Glaze dripped on many pieces in my last firing but this little teapot turned out nice. And doesn't dribble at all! 
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

April Pots

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A few nice pots from my early April Firing.   
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Fall Firing

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  After firing to cone 5. Colors shift, pots shrink.
Friday, February 3, 2017

Cruets and Ewers

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I thought this batch was cursed from the start. I dropped newly thrown pots on the floor, a big bowl exploded in the bisque kiln, and then...
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Friday, August 5, 2016

August Firing

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I don't think I've ever seen a glaze do this. I'm blown away. A few pieces dribbled and will need to be ground down, but other...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

May Firing

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May Firing shows a really nice flameware skillet in the back, a goblet which amazingly I was able to put back together bone dry. A LOT of ...
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Ken Albala
Food Historian at the University of the Pacific. Author of Eating Right in the Renaissance, Food in Early Modern Europe, Cooking in Europe 1250-1650, The Banquet, Beans (2008 IACP Jane Grigson Award) and Pancake.THE LOST ART OF REAL COOKING with Rosanna Nafziger. Coeditor of Food and Faith; Editor of A Cultural History of Food: The Renaissance. Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (4 vols.) Three World Cuisines: Italian, Mexican and Chinese won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Best Foreign Cuisine book in the World. The Routledge International Handbook to Food Studies. THE LOST ARTS OF HEARTH AND HOME with Rosanna Nafziger. Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food, a little book on Nuts and The Food History Reader. The Most Excellent Book of Cookery (translation of a 16th c. French Cookbook with Tim Tomasik). The Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues Encyclopedia. At the Table. Noodle Soup, The Great Gelatin Revival, Opulent Nosh. Forthcoming: Atlas of Fermentation
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