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Workshops and classes include those Sauer products are pre-sold with sub-
on vegetable and dairy fermentation,
scriptions through a "pickle club',' and
freezing, drying and canning as well
picked up at community events.
as ice cream making. Prices for classes,
"Not only do I get to meet people
which are held for 6-20 participants,
at the events who may later buy my
begin at $35 per person. Nosan also
products, but also shoppers who are
holds children's parties as well as chil-
not from the downtown area get to see
dren's and adult events.
downtown when they come pick up
"When I teach pickling classes to
their purchases;' Nosan said.
adult Jews, I love hearing how many
Noam Kimelman, 24, of Detroit is
of them remember being able to go
a member of Suddenly Sauer's pickle
the neighborhood deli and putting
club. Nosan's friend from the Isaac
their hand into a crock to choose their
Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit,
pickle," she said.
where they are both active, Kimelman
Nosan has taught classes on food
says the pickles are fantastic.
preservation for the Garden Resource
"Blair has a really great skill and she
Program and freelances for community might as well use it to help bring good
gardeners and Jewish environmental
food to the community;' he said.
events.
Suddenly Sauer was
Working with young
begun with Nosan's saved
adults, she said, is like
and invested funds. At the
"reclaiming the knowledge
start, she received the first
of our grandparents' gen-
micro grant from Soup at
eration!'
Spaulding, a grassroots
"My classes on making
weekly fundraising dinner
butter bring back a lost art
in Detroit. Monetarily, the
and remind people of their
grant was small — just $50
capacity to create simple
— but the support showed
staple foods themselves,"
that Nosan's idea was a win-
Keren Alp ert
she said.
ner. For now, Nosan is the
Her cultured dairy and
business' only employee. Her
vegetable fermentation
boyfriend, Ben Chodoroff
classes are taught locally and are
of Detroit, created and maintains
among those she has taught at the
the Suddenly Sauer website through
Hazon Food Conference in California,
theworkdept.com .
sponsored by Hazon, America's largest
'A lot of my Jewish friends work in
Jewish environmental group.
other areas of food and food justice,'
"Many young people who recognize
she said.
the value of knowing who produces
Her hope is to create and encour-
the food they eat, often preferring
age programs like Adamah and other
organic choices, have come to support
Jewish projects to come here and for
local CSA (community-supported
young people to know there could be a
agriculture), thereby also helping the
place for them in the Detroit area.
local economy:' said Betsy Winkelman,
"I've been thrilled to see a growing
chair of the Michigan Coalition on
interest in food and agriculture arrive
the Environment and Jewish Life
alongside a desire for traditional food
(MI-COEJL), a Bloomfield Hills-
knowledge," Nosan said. "Canning, fer-
based special project of the Jewish
menting, drying and root-cellaring, all
Community Relations Council of
so recently discarded, are being sought
Metropolitan Detroit.
after with gusto."
"The small local farmer's crop
Added Winkelman, "Blair Nosan is
yields more variety and intense flavor
living the 21st-century locavore's dream
as it can be harvested close to ripe-
and sharing it with others through her
ness — a benefit unavailable to food
teaching of various methods of food
shipped from afar."
preservation, once common. Her focus
on teaching young people is indicative
Going Into Business
of the growing recognition that these
In August, Nosan launched her own
activities provide satisfaction and value
business, Suddenly Sauer, featuring
beyond the food itself'
artisanal hand-pickled products.
Using only chemical-free produce,
Suddenly Sauer products or classes:
Nosan's products include dilly beans,
www.suddenlysauer.com or e-mail
hot head cauliflower, olive-style green
blair@suddenlysauer. corn.
tomatoes, Lebanese turnips and clas-
MI-COEJL: (248) 642-5393, ext. 7;
sic kraut, priced from $5-$7. Created
mi-coejl@jfmd.org or www.mi-coejl.
in Nosan's home kitchen, Suddenly
org.

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