Kitchen Table Chats #39 – Andrea’s Recent Birth Story & Home-Education Cooking

Meredith Leigh is an ex-vegan now butcher, a butchery teacher, an author, a kitchen experimenter extraordinaire and meat fermenter, co-founder of The Fermentation School and a mum. She has so much to share and this is an intimate and engaging conversation. We cover some really important questions including conscious animal slaughter, Meredith’s transition from veganism to ethical meat, the safety worries around fermenting meat and the one we get so many questions about: nitrates in meat.

Everyone who’s passionate, creative and enthusiastic has experienced stress in the kitchen, right?! In this episode we deal with Kitchen Management and Burnout, giving them the attention and care they need. Listen in to feel met (we struggle too!) and hopefully pick up some ideas to take into your own kitchens.

Do you cook with millet? I do and I love this ancient grain for the fact that it is super sustainable, very economical and, being gluten and lectin free, really easy to digest. In this episode we dive in to the ancestral grain millet. We will talk about what it is, why you’d want to include it in your diet, how to cook it and I then I will go on to share in detail my seven favourite ways to use millet – we regularly consume millet all of these ways in our home.

A few years back, I gave away my iPhone. This podcast is about why, about what I do now and about how my life has changed.

There’s a lot of talk about sustainability, but much of it misses the wisdom that our ancestors have to show us in the ways they farmed and ate for centuries. Hear Andrea and I talk about practical sustainability for all our kitchens in this episode.

If you’re interested in whole grain sourdough baking (or soap-making) Elly is the one to know! She has two fantastic You Tube channels with wonderfully clear, non-nonsense recipes. Listen to us quiz her on all things sourdough *and* get a chat in about making your own soap too!