Jennifer Hsu, Video Producer, WNYC Interactive
Jennifer Hsu produces videos about news and culture for WNYC. She is the creator of the ongoing Know Your Neighbor video series of intimate portraits about living in New York City.
John, The Tempeh Man
Monday, January 31, 2011
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A couple of years ago, John Parker decided to build an incubator in his Brooklyn home to start making tempeh from scratch.
Since then, it has turned into a vocation. Parker spends literally dozens of hours a week cracking, boiling, inoculating and incubating to create his fermented soybean cakes. The hardest part is making sure his incubator doesn't overheat. "Sometimes I'm up all night checking on my little tempeh babies," he says.
Watch a video of this fermentation fanatic creating his latest batch at home in Bushwick.
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i wish he was my neighbor!
Is anyone selling homemade tempeh? I love love love tempeh but don't know anywhere to get it homemade. Bet it's awesome!
I'm coming to NYC the first week of December and a, hoping to connect with John Parker and/or the folks at Grown in Brooklyn (Barry's Tempeh) since there seems to be a mutual respect for each others tempeh. I've been making consistent small batches but want to start producing more. My contact information can be found at first(dot) last name(at)gmail
How thankful too have found this............thank you and blessings.
Please stay in touch!
Hi!
@Anne, tempeh isn't alcoholic :)
@grown in Brooklyn, how do I get in touch? I'd love to meet you and talk tempeh.
John Parker
Verrrry interesting! How did it get it s name and where did you learn about it? If it is fermented, is it alcohlic? If so, are you bootleging?
Hey we just started making fresh tempeh in Brooklyn. Using fresh beans and grains grown locally. It is the most wonderful tempeh you can't find anywhere (except maybe john). We are currently making sprouted oat - malted barley - soy tempeh, which is our favorite...get in touch
nice one
i'm a big fan of tempeh
how can i try some John Parker?
Awesome. Now I need to look up tempeh, learn exactly what it is.
Great Story, great photography, great neighbor telling his great story. I look for more in the future. Thanks.
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