#109 – Meagan Francis Spills the Tea: History, Sourcing, and Brewing a Good Cup

In this episode I got to sit down with Meagan Francis, a supporter and friend of Ancestral Kitchen and veteran podcaster herself. She is the host of The Kettle with Meagan Francis, which is a lovely podcast, and author of “The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Read” which just came out this spring. Meagan also owns a tea and variety shop and in this episode she shared with me some surprising and interesting tidbits on the history of tea and how it was introduced to Western civilization, some of the finer points of sourcing and brewing, where some of our familiar tea traditions came from and what High Tea really means.

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Kitchen Table Chats #44 – Soaking/Sprouting, Proportions of Protein/Carb/Fat Plus UTIs

These are the show notes for a podcast episode recorded especially for patrons of my main show (Ancestral Kitchen Podcast). These patrons pay a monthly subscription to be part of the podcast community and in return receive monthly exclusive recordings (like this private podcast) along with lots of extra resources. You can get access to…

#107 – Easy Dairy Products to Make at Home

It’s almost May, the month which the early medieval Anglo-Saxons called thrymilce, because according to the Venerable St Bede, “in that month cattle were milked three times a day.” We don’t know if you’re milking your cow three times a day, but ‘tis the season for lots of fresh and available milk. What to do with all that milk? – and if you don’t have a cow, what to do if you have access to raw milk and want to make staple value-added dairy products in your home, like cottage cheese, sour cream and yoghurt?

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Kitchen Table Chats #43 – Nebraska Runzas, Mechanization of Humans, Big News!

These are the show notes for a podcast episode recorded especially for patrons of my main show (Ancestral Kitchen Podcast). These patrons pay a monthly subscription to be part of the podcast community and in return receive monthly exclusive recordings (like this private podcast) along with lots of extra resources. You can get access to…

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Kitchen Table Chats #42 – NT Read-Along, Eating Everything On Your Plate & ‘Handling’ Nay-Sayers

These are the show notes for a podcast episode recorded especially for patrons of my main show (Ancestral Kitchen Podcast). These patrons pay a monthly subscription to be part of the podcast community and in return receive monthly exclusive recordings (like this private podcast) along with lots of extra resources. You can get access to…

#104 – Baking with Ancient Grains

Alison has just released a free 30-page guide to baking with ancient grains and this companion podcast episode will give you everything you need to know to bring the world of ancient grain baking into your own kitchen. We’ll define an ancient grain, we’ll talk about why they’re different to modern wheat and how that change happened, Alison will share why she believes ancient grains are so important in our modern world and then talk about how you can bring them into your own baking.

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The Ancestral Kitchen Podcast Guide to Milling Your Own Flour

Here at Ancestral Kitchen Podcast, we love milling our own flour for bread (and pancakes, and muffins, and pastry, and biscuits and cakes!). There’s just no comparison; freshly-milled flour is better on all fronts.  We receive lots of milling questions, so decided to put together a podcast guide to milling your own flour. Why mill…

#103 – 10 Nourishing Traditions Dishes – Cheaper Than Supermarkets!

The cost of eating an ancestral, nourishing diet, vs the cost of eating a conventional, supermarket diet: people are already stretched to the limit on their grocery budgets, so how can we ask them to spend even more on buying more nutritious or local food? Even if it’s important to them, what if the dollars literally do not exist? How are we to eat? These were the questions burning in my mind when I sat down with the Nourishing Traditions cookbook to make a list of ten easy, favorite recipes.

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Kitchen Table Chats #41 – Tudor Wheat, Weekly Breakfast Menu, Phone Distractions

These are the show notes for a podcast episode recorded especially for patrons of my main show (Ancestral Kitchen Podcast). These patrons pay a monthly subscription to be part of the podcast community and in return receive monthly exclusive recordings (like this private podcast) along with lots of extra resources. You can get access to…

#102 – The Guide to Getting Out of Supermarkets

How, when you’ve got limited money, no spare time and family who are used to eating what they eat… How when you can’t find alternatives, don’t have the room to grow it yourself and don’t have the headspace… How do you get out of supermarkets? In this, our Guide to Getting Out of Supermarkets episode, we’ll give you a stack of practical ideas (from us and from our supporters) that’ll change things up.

#101 – Tending to Health in Times of Flu, Sickness or Recovery

How does one prepare for times of illness? Having supplies on hand, such as home remedies, some handy rubrics and rules of thumb in your back pocket, and healing foods prepared and set aside for such a time, are steps the wise person takes to avoid being caught off guard and unprepared. In this episode, Alison and Andrea will talk about some favorite tools and remedies they keep on hand, as well as procedures they use, in times of illness.

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Kitchen Table Chats #40 – Is the Fat on your Broth Rancid (& Doughnuts!)?

These are the show notes for a podcast episode recorded especially for patrons of my main show (Ancestral Kitchen Podcast). These patrons pay a monthly subscription to be part of the podcast community and in return receive monthly exclusive recordings (like this private podcast) along with lots of extra resources. You can get access to…

#97 – Postpartum Care and Ancestral Food Wisdom with Christine Muldoon

In this wonderful episode, I got to sit down with Christine Muldoon, who is a friend, the creator of NourishtheLittles.com, a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, a mother and wife, and also a follower of the Weston A Price principles of food. She is also the co-host of the podcast Modern Ancestral Mamas with her amazing co-host, Corey Dunn. I wanted to tap into Christine’s incredible knowledge base and wisdom for post-partum care, and really nourishing mom in the post-partum window of time.

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Episode #96 – Winter Eating Guide

This downloadable and printable Winter Eating Guide by guest and patron of the podcast Kathie Lapcevic includes four delicious seasonal recipes and accompanies episode number 96 which focuses on eating ancestrally through the winter. You can find Kathie online at http://homespunseasonalliving.com plus you can sign up to her value-filled mailing list (and, as a podcast listener get…