Ancestral Kitchen

#121 - 24 More Nuggets of Ancestral Wisdom!

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Back in episode 117, we gave you 26 nuggets of ancestral wisdom. We’ve got more. Another 24 to be precise. And just because these are in this second...

#120 - Using Ancient Grains & Ethical Growing with Jade from Grand Teton Ancient Grains

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Khorasan rye, spelt, emmer, millet, quinoa - what do all of these delicious foods have in common? They are considered ancient grains, grasses harking ...

#119 - Why (& How) You Should Be Eating Chocolate with Marcos Patchett

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In so many of our episodes over the last four years, we have explored how no food we eat is intrinsically ‘bad’. Instead, it’s what we as humans...

#118 - At Least a Dozen Treats for Ancestral Kitchens

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ancestral food is not just all livers and bone broth! You not only can find amazing treats and desserts in the ancestral food world, but this is where...

#117 - 26 Nuggets of Ancestral Wisdom!

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As you know, if you’ve been cooking ancestrally for any length of time, the ancestral mindset does not stay in the kitchen! Some of us come to this ...

#116 - Leftovers and Scraps in a Frugal Ancestral Kitchen

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Leftovers again? Oh good, I can’t wait! I love it when half the work is already done. In this episode we talked about leftovers as well as scraps an...

#115 - Four of Our Favorite Easy, Ancestral Meals

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When life is overwhelming or busy, or I don’t know what to cook - What are a few simple meals I can have in my back pocket? As a person new to ances...

#114 - Nourishing Traditions Read-Along, Eating Everything on Your Plate & Handling Nay-Sayers

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every month we record an entire extra podcast episode which goes up on our private podcast feed, Kitchen Table Chats, for our supporters to enjoy as a...

Encore: Fermenting Trash in the Kitchen: Using a Bokashi Composter

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we're bringing you an episode of the podcast that originally went out in 2022. It's about fermenting, but fermenting with a twist – fermentin...

#113 - Coffee: Sourcing, Roasting & Brewing in a Mindful Ancestral Kitchen

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What plant was allegedly first discovered in Ethiopia by a goat, boasts an almost 270billion USD market worldwide, has almost 10,000 shops dedicated t...

#112 - Find More Time in the Kitchen (& Do More When You’re There!)

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hands down the question we receive the most is:How do you have enough time to cook this way?Children, work, families, friends, community commitments, ...

#111 - Prep and Pack Travel Meals: How to Vacation Like a Peasant

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traveling and vacation is so much fun until you get the bill for all the meals you ate out, and you get a tummy ache for all those weird ingredients y...

#110 - Baking Pans With Elly from Elly's Everyday

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What pan should I use to bake my bread? Metal, ceramic, glass, dutch oven…there are so many out there. What are the differences? What about non-stic...

June Special Announcement

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We have some exciting news!We are pleased to announce that we’ve left the Patreon platform behind and are now hosting our membership system on our w...

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

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

George Orwell writes, “If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at mo...

#108 - Histamine, Ferments & Traditional Foods

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bone broth, sauerkraut, milk kefir – fundamentals of an ancestral diet and foods that we know do us good.So what do you do if actually they're makin...

#107 - Easy Dairy Products to Make at Home

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s almost May, the month which the early medieval Anglo-Saxons called thrymilce, because according to the Venerable St Bede, “in that month...

#106 - Gluten Free Ancestral Eating

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Combining gluten-free eating with ancestral eating need not be daunting. Today I talk with Rebecca Zipp, a beloved podcast guest and supporter. She's ...

#105 - 16 Breakfasts with Traditional Foods (Fast, Prep-Ahead, and On the Go!)

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are some traditional foods we can eat for breakfast, and do we have examples of ancestral breakfasts in history? In this episode Alison and I got...

#104 - Baking with Ancient Grains

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Download the free, 30-page guide Baking with Ancient Grains hereAlison has just released a free 30-page guide to baking with ancient grains and this c...

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

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

#102 - The Guide to Getting Out of Supermarkets

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

#100 - What Is Ancestral Eating?

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is ancestral eating?After three years of recording podcast episodes, we thought it was about time we tackled this topic head-on. Because, althoug...

#99 - Grill Me Like a Cheese Sandwich! We Answer All Your Questions

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ask us anything, we said! Grill us like a cheese sandwich! And you did! Our podcast supporters sent in questions for Alison and I to answer for this f...

#98 - How to Have a Green & Peaceful Christmas

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you dislike all the fuss, packaging and stress that a mainstream Christmas involves? So do we! Both of us have spent many years cultivating Christm...

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

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this wonderful episode, I got to sit down with Christine Muldoon, who is a friend, the creator of NourishtheLittles.com, a Nutritional Therapy Prac...

#96 - Cooking Ancestrally Through the Winter with Kathie Lapcevic

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you eat ancestrally and seasonally even during winter, when the produce stands maybe are shut down and your garden may be covered over with sno...

#95 - Let's Make a Christmas Pudding!

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is a Christmas pudding and how did it develop into the U.K.'s favourite festive dessert? What's inside one and, importantly, how can you make one...

#94 - 7 Ancestral Swaps That Will Save You Money

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is such a great episode covering Seven Ancestral Swap That Will Save You Money. We are assuming you are already well on the way to eating ancestr...

#93 - How to Make Confit, Rilettes and Terrines

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we got to sit down again with Meredith Leigh, a butcher and author of The Ethical Meat Handbook, and ask her a lot of questions about Confit, Ri...

#92 - Introduction to Ancestral Superfoods (and much more!) with Ben Greenfield

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are so many supplements out there that, if we believe the advertising, we should be taking. It's confusing and even when we have the funds to di...

#91 - 7 Meals in 1 Day!

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The question we receive the most is how do you do it?How do you cook 3 meals a day, 365 days a year for your families?We thought it was about tim...

#90 - Cold Extract Honey with Prenten at Beehive State Honey

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does "raw honey" really mean? How do you know if your honey is truly raw - is just the label enough? Are there different benefits to truly raw ho...

#89 - 'Snotty' Ferments, Ale Recipe & Convincing Those Who Won't Listen (a Peek into a Patron Exclusive Podcast)

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every month, we record not only the episodes you listen to here on Ancestral Kitchen but also a special show for supporters of the podcast - that is, ...

Encore: The 5 Cheapest (& Yet the Most Expensive) Foods

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many of the questions Alison and I receive on a constant basis relate to topics that we covered in early foundational episodes of the podcast, so we d...

#88 - Growing, Storing and Using Garlic: A Patron Special Episode

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Megan is a podcast listener, turned podcast patron, turned podcast admin! She is now working for the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast and it has been so wond...

#87 - Taking Your Health in Your Own Hands

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So many of us come to ancestral foods because of our own or our family’s health. We’ve tried what the mainstream medical model has to offer and we...

#86 - Let's Capture & Preserve Your Ancestral Stories

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast we celebrate and share ancestral food…the things that our great grandmothers, and their great grandmothers used to do. The wisdom we...

#85 - Ancestral Cooking When You're Busy, Sick, Pregnant or Moving

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What about cooking and eating ancestrally when you're in times of turmoil, or busy chaotic times - like having a new baby, or when people are sick, or...

June Special Announcement!

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to June! It's a wild month for both Alison and Andrea - Andrea is having a baby, and Alison is moving back from Italy to the UK! To celebrate ...

#84 - How to Get More (& Tastier!) Liver into Your Diet

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liver: do you love it or hate it?Which ever side of the fence you're on, we're betting you know that liver is a true superfood; one of the most nutrie...

#83 - Meal Planning and Ancestral Food Rhythms with Rebecca Zipp

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca is a good friend and a good influence. She is the creator behind A Humble Place, with a website and an Instagram both by that name, where I fi...

#82 - Home-Milling Flour for the Best Bread!

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I know milling my own flour is better and I want to do it, but where do I start?Home milling can be such a joy and we’re here in this episode to gui...

#81 - Millet: How to Use this Sustainable, Gluten & Lectin-Free Grain

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 fr...

#80 - Feeding Babies & Children Nutrient-Dense Food with Christine Muldoon

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Feeding babies and children a nutrient-dense ancestral diet is something that many moms have questions about. Whether the questions are "how do I star...

#79 - Butchering Poultry

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We get a lot of questions about butchering chickens over here on the podcast, and those questions range from “I have a backyard flock and I would li...

#78 - Broth: Your Questions Answered

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We asked for your questions on bone broth. And man, did you send them in!Today's episode is dedicated to answering all the questions we received about...

#77 - Veganism, Conscious Slaughter, Safe Meat Fermentation & Nitrates with Meredith Leigh

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meredith Leigh is an ex-vegan now butcher, a butchery teacher, an author, a kitchen experimenter extraordinaire and meat fermenter, co-founder of The ...

#76 - Essential Oils in an Ancestral Kitchen

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world of essential oils is an ancient and ancestral one. From the Mesopotamian valley where the Sumerians, Akkadians and ancient Hebrew tribes wer...

#75 - Sandor Katz: Wild Yeast, Small Food & The War On Bacteria

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you asked both Andrea and I who's inspired us the most we'd both put our guest today, Sandor Katz, right up there in our top couple of names. We've...

#74 - 14 Tips for Changing Your Food Habits

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All of us have tried to change our food habits at some stage, most of us multiple times. Maybe, as you’re listening to this, you want to. It sounds ...

#73 - Slow Christmas

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we will share what a Slow Christmas is and why we choose to celebrate our holidays this way. We'll talk about some specific traditions...

#72 - All About Spelt Sourdough

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spelt is a wonderful, economical alternative to wheat. I've been baking with it for a decade now and I love its deep, nutty flavour, its flexibility a...

#71 - How We Cook Shapes the World We Live In with Abby Allen from Pipers Farm

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Piper’s Farm was founded in 1989 by Peter Grieg and his wife, Henri. It’s just north of Exeter in Devon, Britain, and today it is run by their son...

#70 - Fermenting Oats

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Oats are one of my ultimate comfort foods. Golden, creamy, filling, tasty - what is there not to love? It's been that way for me for a long time. Long...

#69 - Fake Food v. Small Farms

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Before we read the books that our guest today, Chris Smaje, wrote, we knew we didn't want a world where fake food, food manufactured in factories was ...

#68 - Naturally Fermented Dairy in the Home with Robyn Jackson

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re bringing raw milk into your home, whether it is through a herd share, shopping from a local raw dairy or co-op, or you have a cow on the b...

#67 - 50 Ways to Save Money on an Ancestral Diet - Part 2

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I just can't afford to eat ancestrally" is something that we hear all the time.And we get that, the mainstream, shop-bought side of ancestral eating ...

#66 - 50 Ways to Save Money on an Ancestral Diet - Part 1

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I would love to eat an ancestral diet but I can’t afford it, what can I do?""I want to shop from small farms around me, how can I make this happen ...

#65 - Our Birthing Stories

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just like the Ancestral Diet is so different from the standard American diet, so the ways our ancestors birthed bears very little relation to how mode...

#64 - Better Broths & Healing Tonics

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Better Broths and Healing Tonics is a book that blew us away when we found it earlier this year. It is so thorough, so accessible and so creative...

#63 - Everyday Luxuries

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Every once in a while Rob comes out from behind the tangle of wires and sits down on the other side of the podcast microphone and records an epic epis...

#62 - Building Your Pantry with Canning: Hospitality, Budgeting, Safety and More with Angi Schneider

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Putting food into jars: is it really hard? Is it complicated? Am I going to make my family sick? Does it taste better, am I going to save money, or bo...

#61 - Being 'Part of the Herd' on a Small Scale Organic Dairy Farm

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Holden looks after a large organic dairy herd in Wales in the United Kingdom and makes raw, cheddar-style cheese from their milk. Mainstream m...

#60 - What Fermented Drinks Can I Make?

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is dedicated to covering the wide world of fermented drinks - all accessible to you, makeable in your own kitchen, right now. We talk ...

Bonus: So Much More Than Scottish Porridge...The Culinary History of British Oats

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have a special bonus for today! Alison reads the article she recently had published in the Weston A. Price journal Wise Traditions:So Much More Tha...

#59 - Alison & Rob's Personal Experience with GAPS

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever thought the GAPS protocol might be for you? Are you considering trying it, or you’ve just heard about it and wonder how it fits into a...

#58 - Ancestral Cooking for Schools & Retreats with Hilary Boynton

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary Boynton is the creator of the School of Lunch, a week long academy held a few times a year that teaches attendees from around the world how to ...

#57 - Celebrating the Ancestral Food of Wales

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Alison talks to Carwyn Graves, author of Welsh Food Stories, a beautiful chronicle of the ancestral food of Wales. They talk abo...

#56 - Preparing Nutrient-Dense Meals From Scratch Every Day

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You asked for it, and we did it. We finally did it! Alison and I have written our first Ancestral Kitchen Podcast cookbook, called Meals at the Ancest...

#55 - Anita from Weston A Price Recipes

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Making the Weston A Price principles accessible, simple, and approachable for everybody is what Anita is so good at. Anita is a wife and mother l...

#54 - What Have We Done To Beer?! (& What Can We Do About It?)

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

#53 - Raw Milk: Our Ancestral Heritage

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 fe...

#52 - Homesteading the Final Frontier

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine buying bare land in Alaska and building your own farm from the ground up. Imagine raising cows and chickens there and growing virtually a...

#51 - Your Sourdough Questions Answered

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You are about to listen to one of the podcast's most popular episodes. Since it was released in February 2023, this episode has been downloaded thousa...

#50 - 20 Small Steps to an Ancestral Kitchen

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 multipl...

#49 - Traditional Slovakian Food

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Naomi Huzovicova is a passionate and talented ancestral cook, a food story discoverer and an amazing photographer. She has lived and cooked up Sl...

#48 - Talking Fermentation With Kirsten Shockey

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

#47 - The Christmas Survival Guide

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you stressed about over-indulging during the holidays? Are you wondering how to eat a nourishing ancestral diet while away from home? What about ...

#46 - How To Feed The World Sustainably With Sir Patrick Holden

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So you are really passionate about regenerative, sustainable agriculture and food, right? And how many times have you heard, "Yes, that's all very nic...

#45 - Fermenting Trash in the Kitchen

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I think the whole world should be doing this! - AlisonIt just makes everything more pleasant with your food waste - there is no rotting, no flies. - T...

#44 - How To Run A 'Made From Scratch' Homestead With Melissa K Norris

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"For 18 years my husband and I both worked day jobs off the farm...so we had to have systems in place to still be able to farm and to raise as much of...

#43 Fertility - It's More Than Just Pregnancy!

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was about fourteen... My periods were heavy and irregular... The doctor put me on the Pill at fourteen... I was about...

#42 - How To Get (& Grind) The Best Flour For Bread

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"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 w...

#41 - Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering the Basics

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why am I so obsessed with rye? It's because I love it... Rye is just so special. - AlisonWhere to begin with sourdough rye bread? This is a topic that...

#40 - 26,000 Nutrient-Dense Meals with Lunch Leader Hilary Boynton

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Last year we served 26,000 meals to kids and that's not including snacks...next year 44,000 meals."Today we talk with an amazing woman. Hilary Boynto...

Sustainable Kitchen BONUS: Interview with Lindsay Miles

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It never occurred to me that I was part of the problem, and that I could be part of the solution. - LindsayLindsay Miles is an author, creator and all...

#39 - The Sustainable Kitchen: Practical Advice

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From our kitchens, through what we do every single day, we can make a huge difference in the impact we have on the world. - AlisonTry to find what the...

#38 - Fat Rendering, Traditional Food Gems & Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As well as recording two podcasts a month, Alison & Andrea also sit down together once a month to catch up on what's been happening in their own f...

#37 - A Peek Into Alison & Rob's Ancestral Lifestyle

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“’OK,’ you say, “Well, there’s organic food in the supermarket.” It’s unaffordable, it is so expensive. Whereas if you buy from the peop...

#36 - Defending Beef with Nicolette Hahn Niman

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"For every complex problem there's an answer that is clear simple and wrong"Are you confused or disheartened by the mainstream medias portrayal of bee...

# 35 - The Easy Way

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s finding a balance, making sure you’re feeding your creativity in the things that inspire you, and trying to make the things that you’re not...

7 Ways to Support Ancestral Kitchen Podcast

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for asking us how you can support the show!! Listen in to hear 7 ways you can help us get this work out to more people, whatever your situat...

#34 - Our Favourite Nourishing Traditions Recipes

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"We love this book so much!"The ancestral cook's bible: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon-MorellWe love this book and we've cooked so much from it...

#33 - The Fats We Love, the Fats We Leave

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I don’t use butter that often – but sometimes I’m really in a buttery mood and I’ll fry my pancake in ghee. – Alison For several decades, fa...

#32 - Cooking Ancestrally in a Van

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A tiny kitchen. No oven. A miniscule fridge. No electric power. A small two-burner hob. Prep space the size of a chopping board.Lots of us think we ha...

#31 - Alison's 140lb Weight Loss

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Between the ages of 20 and 21, I lost 10 stone (140 pounds, 65 kilos), which at the time was half my body weight."Alison has an incredible story of g...

#30 - The Whole Chicken & Nothing But The Chicken

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"A whole chicken is one of the most economical things you can bring into your kitchen" Jamie Waldron, ButcherThe chicken, the whole chicken, and nothi...

#29 - True Historical Italian Food with Karima Moyer Nocchi, Author of Chewing the Fat

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Traditions are always things that are selected and dusted off from the past and embellished and sort of made into a collage of who we are and what re...