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

Ancestral Kitchen

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 can gather listening to and reading the stories of their work has the power to change our modern day food world.

In this episode Andrea and I will put out a call for you to send us your own ancestral stories and we’ll also celebrate people who have collected and treasured this knowledge by sharing four beautiful, evocative pieces of food wisdom hand-picked by some of our favourite authors. Be prepared to be amazed, enlightened, inspired and enthused, as we are, to go out and do all you can to rebuild our individual food stories using the wisdom of our ancestors as the guiding star.

Send us your ancestral stories via this page

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Resources:

A description of Paul Kovi's Transylvanian Cuisine: History, gastronomy, legend and lore from Middle Europe's most remarkable region. This book is no longer in print but used copies can be found on ThriftBooks.

Honey from a Weed by Patience Gray

Chewing the Fat: An Oral History of Italian Foodways from Fascism to Dolce Vita by Karima Moyer-Nocchi

Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore by Darra Goldstein

The reading from Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore by Darra Goldstein, copyright © 2020 is shared with permission from publishers Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Photography credit: Stefan Wettainen © 2020

Do you have memories, documents, recipes or stories of those who cooked ancestrally? If so, we would love to hear from you! Visit our website here for how to share.

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