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لبن نباتي / Lbn nabati (Vegan traditional buttermilk)
Lbn (لْبْنْ or لْبَنْ; also transliterated "lban") is a Moroccan buttermilk drink. It is not to be confused with standard Arabic لَبَن ("laban"), meaning "milk"; with Levantine لَبَن ("laban"), also called لَبَن رَائِب ("laban ra'ib"), which is curdled milk (a.k.a., yoghurt); or with Levantine لَبْنَة ("labna"), which is yoghurt that has been strained and thickened.
Instead, lbn is a traditional buttermilk. It is historically made the same way Western traditional buttermilk is: by leaving raw milk to sit at room temperature while the cream separates and rises to the top, allowing the cream to ferment, and then churning the cream until it separates further into milk solids (cultured butter) and a cultured liquid byproduct (traditional buttermilk). Commercial Western buttermilk, and some Moroccan lbn, is now no longer traditional buttermilk but instead cultured buttermilk, which is produced by fermenting low-fat milk; this produces a thicker, more acidic liquid than traditional buttermilk. Lbn is usually made with goat's milk, though cow's milk is also often used.
Lbn—very sour and tangy, slightly sweet, and about the consistency of milk—is consumed as a refreshing after-dinner drink during the summer. It is also used to soak كُسْكُس ("couscous") (made from durum, barley, or corn flour). Couscous with lbn is called سَيْكُوك ("saykouk") in Darija (Moroccan Arabic), or أزَيْكُوك ("azaykouk") in Tamazight.
Saykouk is a cold dish, commonly eaten in the desert and in rural areas during the summertime; but it is also sold from food carts and by vendors on bicycles year-round in cities. On Fridays, Moroccans often eat couscous dishes with lbn on the side, and may make some on-the-fly saykouk by pouring lbn into their bowls to soak the couscous that remains after the vegetables or meat in the dish have been eaten.
This recipe resembles cultured buttermilk, in that it ferments non-dairy milk with live cultures to achieve a sour taste. However, it more resembles traditional dairy buttermilk in taste and texture. Note that this lbn is intended for drinking and for recipes that call for Moroccan traditional buttermilk, and not for replacing Western cultured buttermilk in pastries or pancakes.
Recipe under the cut!
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Ingredients:
2 cups full-fat oat milk
1-3 vegetarian probiotic capsules (containing at least 10 billion cultures total)
A few pinches salt
A few pinches granulated sugar
Make sure your probiotic capsules contain no prebiotics, as they can interfere with the culture. The probiotic may be multi-strain, but should contain some of: Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Bifidobacterium bifidus, Lactobacillus acidophilus. The number of capsules you need will depend on how many cultures each capsule is guaranteed to contain.
Instead of probiotic capsules, you can use a specialty starter culture pack intended for use in culturing vegan dairy, many of which are available online. Note that starter cultures may be packaged with small amounts of powdered milk for the bacteria to feed on, and may not be truly vegan.
Other types of non-dairy milk may work. My trial with soy milk did not succeed (it never became notably tangy). Soaked and blended cashews will thicken substantially, so be sure to blend cashews with at least twice their volume in (just-boiled, filtered) water if you want to use cashews as your base. I found that oat milk, as well as being more convenient and cheaper than cashews, more closely mimicked the taste of lbn. I have not tested anything else.
Instructions:
1. Boil several cups of water and use the just-boiled water to rinse your measuring cup, the container you will ferment your lbn in, and a wooden spoon or rubber spatula to stir. Your bowl and stirring implement should be in a non-reactive material such as wood, clay, glass, or silicone.
2. Measure oat milk into a container and open probiotic capsules into it. Stir the powder from the capsules in until well combined.
3. Cover the opening of the container with a cheesecloth or tea towel. Ferment for 24 hours: on the countertop in temperate weather, or in an oven with the light on in cold weather.
Taste the lbn with a clean implement (avoid double-dipping!) to see if it is ready. If it still tastes 'oaty,' continue fermenting for another 1-3 days, tasting every 12 hours, until it is notably tangy.
4. Blend lbn with large pinches of salt and sugar; or put lbn, salt, and sugar in a jar with a lid and shake to combine. Taste and adjust salt and sugar.
5. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week. This lbn will continue to culture slowly in the fridge and will eventually (like dairy lbn) become too sour to drink.
Serve chilled.
#I'm really excited about this one guys I have been racking my brain for a way to make vegan lbn forever!!#but that was before I knew about the power of culturing#Moroccan#cultured#fermented#vegan recipes#vegetarian recipes
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Everything You Need To Know About Standing Ground, the British Brand Making Time-Traveling Garments
Ahead of his London Fashion Week show, the designer offered a look inside his sculptural fashion label, built on Irish mysticism, fantasy classics, and an intuitive approach to craft
Ireland’s standing stones, or dolmens, are the oldest remaining neolithic monuments in the country. For Michael Stewart, the designer behind London-based label Standing Ground, they are portals through time: stoic witnesses to the eons. He recalls taking frequent trips to visit them as a child, enchanted by the centuries-old mysticism buried deep within. “Ireland is a superstitious country, which is a good thing, because the dolmens have been preserved and protected over time,” he muses. “They’re feared in a way, so people don’t dare touch them.”
It’s no secret that Stewart’s spiritual connection to these megalithic tombs informs his brand’s name and modus operandi. Speaking from his new studio at the Sarabande Foundation in East London, he explains that the dolmens possess a transcendent quality, which he projects onto his own statuesque garments: deceptively simple creations that borrow from the futurism of sci-fi and fantasy classics such as Lord of the Rings to imagine evening wear, custom garments, and body ornaments that feel rooted in neither past, present, nor future.
After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2017, Stewart established Standing Ground in 2022, before attracting the attention of Lulu Kennedy’s Fashion East incubator program, and making his London Fashion Week debut as part of the Spring/Summer 2023 shows.
Remaining loyal to his source material of neolithic artifacts and figures—images of a dolmen and a Saint Brigid’s cross adorn his spare studio walls—he doesn’t have a mood board or sketches, and freely admits to having done no new research since his master’s degree. Instead, Stewart takes an intuitive, and manual, approach to draping, sculpting, and craft, developing his own lines and patterns by hand to produce alien silhouettes that flow from and protect the body like topographic armor.
Stewart is currently working on his third collection for Spring/Summer 2024, which expands on the dialogue between distant pasts and otherworldly futures. “It’s different to what I would’ve presented last February, which was very beautiful, but not as menacing,” he confesses. “I wanted to take some time to figure out what I was doing, and not pigeonhole myself.”
This collection dials back the clock to pre-human times, focusing on primordial, skeletal, and fossilized forms to create uncanny garments that explore the relationship between objects and their surrounding environment. Imagining a world where ancient objects grow and shapeshift across each collection, the designs suggest a speculative place where humankind and nature are mirrors for each other—or, as Stewart puts it: “seeing the body as a landscape and the landscape as a body.”
Makeup by Machiko Yano / Hair by Moe Mukai / Casting by AAMØ Casting / Model is Nyaueth Riam / Fashion Assistance by Florence Thompson / Makeup Assistance by Krishna Branch-Mackowiak
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Brian’s Note: Cultured magazine’s story was published last year on 15 September. It mentions “Stewart is currently working on his third collection for Spring/Summer 2024.” Some of the dresses included in that collection are the dress Caitríona wore to the IFTAs and the ones below.
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Remember… Ireland’s standing stones, or dolmens, are the oldest remaining neolithic monuments in the country. ☘️
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as important as focusing on my actual academic learning is, i also think it's important to broaden the areas of knowledge i'm well versed in. i have a thirst for knowledge and i want to be a cultured woman that can strike up a conversation at a cocktail event over any number of topics!
some areas i would like to focus on & tools/links to use:
• art history & appreciation: visit museums and attend their lectures! how to look at and understand art (there's a free trial, but also there are so many art docs/lessons free on kanopy); 50 paintings you should know
• literature (classic & contemporary): read lol; the western canon; world lit
• contemporary politics: read local, national, and world news and listen to podcasts
• latin american history: learn about scholars specializing in the area and read their academic work
• cinema: watch classic and foreign films and better content in general; 15 documentaries to watch
• philosophy: become familiar with the most well-known schools
• architecture: go on self-guided tours in dc and nyc to discover some of the most famous and recognizable buildings in the world; 36 famous buildings to inspire you
• classical music, operas & the ballet: go watch more live shows! listen to classical music when studying/reading; 10 pieces of classical music everyone should know; tchaikovsky's swan lake <3
• western european history: pick one time period at a time to focus on
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Cutlet curry. Katsu curry is a Japanese curry dish that combines curry rice and pork cutlet.
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MIA GOTH in CULTURED's February/March 2023 cover by Rachel Fleminger Hudson
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Mia Goth for Cultured Magazine
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Naudline Pierre
“I grew up in a Christian Protestant religion that heavily emphasized prophecy and the end of the world. I absorbed lots of visuals of beasts and fire, but also many references to otherworldly beings and a future new world,” says Pierre. The artist worked with this lexicon of imagery—a stew of heavy beasts that mark the end times and divine figures that signal lightness—and brought it all down to an intimate, personal level that makes the sublime imagery feel at home among us. “All of this filters into creating an alter-ego who lives in an alternate universe filled with fantastical beings and quite a lot of fire.”
Her compositions recall Renaissance tableaus in which figures from earthly realms comingled with the preternatural. The work also engages problems of authorship within art history, probing questions as to what it means to be a young Black woman painting into subjects long dominated by white European men.
“Lately, my religious texts include anything by Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler,” she says. “At this moment, I find myself going back to Sula and Song of Solomon by Morrison, and Butler’s Parable series. Both of these authors’ works quench my soul in indescribable ways.”
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The idea that a single woman might think of herself as the equal to a man was derided by the late nineteenth-century radical thinker and poet Edward Carpenter, who said in 1897 that spinster feminists were 'out of line . . . Such women do not altogether represent their sex; some are rather mannish in temperament; some are "homogenic", that is inclined to attachments to their own sex rather than the opposite sex; such women are ultra-rationalising and brain-cultured; to many, children are more or less a bore; to others, man's sex-passion is a mere impertinence, which they do not understand, and whose place they consequently misjudge.'
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
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I wanna do a DTIYS but it’s just bunnygirl hero and we all draw her and that’s it that’s the idea
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Hari Nef covers the latest issue of Cultured Magazine
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“You warned them: if they shed too much blood you would pretend to disown them; the same way a State—no matter which one—maintains a mob of agitators, provocateurs, and spies abroad whom it disowns once they are caught. You who are so liberal, so humane, who take the love of culture to the point of affectation, you pretend to forget that you have colonies where massacres are committed in your name.” —Sartre, Preface to “The Wretched of the Earth”
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