Sweet Treats
We’re rested and refreshed and ready for something sweet! We're returning to regular programming with some updates about our upcoming Sugar Season.
Sourced is back just in time for our 5th birthday! In the last 5 years we have published seasons on Soil, Water, Cinnamon, Wheat, Alcohol, Rot, Rice, Milk, Gourds, Trees and Celebration. While most of our publishing seasons only last a couple months, we’ve decided to change the model and focus on one season each year.
This year’s ingredient is Sugar, a monumental undertaking and we cannot wait to commission pieces for it. In the meantime we have a brilliant conversation between Jenny Lau (Celestial Peach, A-Z of Chinese Food) and Miranda Brown (University of Michigan) on the history of sugar within Chinese foodways.
We will be commissioning for Sugar Season in two rounds, the first deadline for submissions is July 27. We will announce the next round after August.
For more information about pitching, please take a look at our Pitch Guide. Priority will be given to writers who have not written for us before.
All of the articles commissioned for the Sourced website are funded by paid subscriptions to this newsletter. If you are a current paid subscriber, we will be unpausing payments on July 1.
If you aren’t already a paid subscriber, a subscription upgrade not only pays the writers we commission but you also get a newsletter with essays and recipes from Anna and Chloe as a ‘thank you’ for your support of Sourced.
As we slowly launch Sugar season, here are some articles from other seasons that cover similar topics we are interested in investigating– specifically: colonialism, indulgence and flavour. All funded by paid subscribers!
Food as a time machine - an photo essay about nostalgia by photographer Alberto Zamaniego
The white tears of Taranaki - by Sarah Hopkins. Taranaki in Aotearoa, New Zealand, is home to the world’s largest dairy factory, Sarah shows how the landscape was changed dramatically from this colonial project. A collaboration between Sourced x Wellcome Collection.
The shape of British bread - by David Fouser, a look at how the colonial project fed Britain through agriculture, to the detriment of other landscapes and peoples.
A wander through Central Mexico’s dairyland - a photo essay about Mexico’s landscape and culture through cheese, with photographer Alexander Pomper and South America cheese maker Mercedes Moreno.
Through food: learning the importance of preserving food - by Adrienne Katz Kennedy, a look at land rights in the US
Britain's story of cinnamon: a look through the cookbooks - by Dan Lepard, a look at the relationship the UK has to an ingredient grown in the global south. Audio version is included too!
Disputed grains - an illustrative essay, in both English and Bahasa Malay. A look at how a staple ingredient for Malaysia is grown elsewhere.