What we cover: Liver The arrival of Andrea’s cow, Elsie (and the story behind her) Industrialisation and how it began earlier than we sometimes think Cow-breeding and cow selection Rebecca’s question on GAPS Perimenopause Protein – how much should we be eating? Really? That much?! Our cookbook is coming to you soon! Resources: Harriet Gendall’s…
Did you know that women have been the predominant brewers of beer throughout history….up to just 400 years ago? How about that up till that same time period beer tasted completely different to the beer we are used to now? Join us in this episode to hear the real story of beer, how we messed it up and why Alison is passionate about bringing beer back where it belongs – the kitchen!
Have you wondered if raw milk is truly safe? Why did we start pasteurizing it in the first place? Have our ancestors always drunk milk? What is the fermentation all about, and is it really necessary? In this episode, we will share some of what we have learned about raw milk over the past ten years.
Thanks for your support!! Andrea and I range through a lot of topics as usual, including: The American Prairies, weather and weather sensitivities Andrea’s pork supper Alison’s oat sausages Flavio’s dogs, pests and hunting Discord and welcome to Marianne, Sara and Katie Nick’s question: Cooking a whole goose The book Welsh Food Stories by Carwyn…
Imagine buying bare land in Alaska and building your own farm from the ground up. Imagine raising cows and chickens there and growing virtually all your own food. Imagine doing this whilst also being a mum to three youngsters (two of whom are baby twins) and having a partner who works a job away from home. Today, Andrea talks to Amanda Callahan, the lady who is doing just that.
“How do I use different ancient grains in making sourdough bread?” “How do they behave differently from wheat?” “How do I freeze and store dough or finished bread?” “And why do all those loaves on Instagram look like THAT, and mine looks like THIS?” All these questions and many more crop up when we discuss sourdough bread.
Thank you patrons! Here’s what we talk about in our 20th Kitchen Table Chat: Books v movies Steamed oat puddings Making sausages with carb and offal Putting mushroom mix in coffee Cacao Alison talks about the book ‘The Scot’s Kitchen’ Oats and Alison’s latest adventures in avena nuda and traditional Scottish oats How fashion has…
Do you want to know how to transition your kitchen and your eating to ancestral methods? Maybe you’ve tried before or stopped and started multiple times? Perhaps you have the Nourishing Traditions cookbook, but feel so overwhelmed that you don’t know where to go next? In this episode, we will make it easy for you!
Naomi Huzovicova is a passionate and talented ancestral cook, a food story discoverer and an amazing photographer. She has lived and cooked up Slovakian food culture for 17 years and we’re grateful to her for sharing so much of its uniqueness with us. In this episode we open up the rich world that is Slovakian food.
We know you want to know about fermentation! And who better to ask than the author of five fermentation books and co-founder of The Fermentation School, Kirsten Shockey. With over 20 years of experience in fermentation Kirsten has so much to share that’ll inform, enlighten and, frankly, change the way you eat.
Thank you patrons for your continued support and best wishes from us both for 2023! In this episode we answer a question from Deb on the fat that tops stock and then turn our attention to Zahra’s request for us to share our birth stories. It’s a long one – we talk about our births,…
Are you stressed about over-eating or over-indulging during the holidays? Do you travel to visit relatives, and you are anxious about eating a nourishing ancestral diet while away from home? What about the children?
In this episode I talk to Sir Patrick Holden, head of The Sustainable Food Trust and 50-year farmer and sustainable food activist. You’ll hear us talk about his latest research into how the UK could feed itself using fertiliser/pesticide-free sustainable agriculture (with no grain-fed animals!), the tools to take this global, and how this lifetime campaigner for sustainable animal-involved agriculture feels about lab meat, supermarkets, ground-up change and much more.
Thank you patrons! Here’s our last Kitchen Table Chat of 2022 recorded a few weeks back, full of your questions. Here’s what we talk about: The podcasts we listen to Whether Andrea is making cheese with all of her lovely milk! Barefoot shoes and how to keep warm in them in winter Replacing previously loved…
In this episode, we dive into the process of fermenting kitchen waste to make into compost and compost tea.
This post is the show notes of the podcast that is available exclusively to patrons of Ancestral Kitchen Podcast. If you would like to know more you can check out the main podcast here and learn how to become a patron here. Alison has just finished reading ‘Ale, Beer & Brewsters in England: Women’s Work…
Melissa K Norris is a 5th generation homesteader, a mother, an author, a podcaster and an incredible wealth of experience and information on how to thrive living close to the land.
This post is the show notes of the podcast that is available exclusively to patrons of Ancestral Kitchen Podcast. If you would like to know more you can check out the main podcast here and learn how to become a patron here. Thank you patrons! Here’s a Kitchen Table Chat we recorded early October. If…
Fertility is an indication of peak health. Yet, in our modern-day thinking, we have reduced fertility to simply something you look at when you want to get pregnant. In this episode, we recount Alison’s incredible fertility journey, what the doctors told her about her hopes of ever conceiving naturally, and what she found as a solution.
“Find a supplier of as locally sourced grains as possible…find a mill; a coop and support them!” If you’re a bread-maker, this episode’s for you. We welcome back the fabulous Elly from Elly’s Everyday to the podcast to talk about the heart of bread, its raw material: grains and flour. During this episode you’ll hear…
