{"podcast":{"title":"Ancestral Kitchen","slug":"ancestral-kitchen-2045138","podcast_index_feed_id":2045138,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/ancestralkitchen/","website_url":"Https://www.ancestralkitchenpodcast.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/7df8cddd-70d8-4e81-bf7a-a33c0474934e/AKP-Logo-Image-3.png","author":"Alison Kay & Andrea Huehnerhoff","episode_count":142,"summary":"The Ancestral Kitchen is a twice-monthly podcast hosted by Alison, a European town-dweller and Andrea, living on a family farm in northwest Washington state. Pull up a chair at the table and join us as we talk about eating, cooking and living with ancient ancestral food wisdom in a modern-world kitchen. Find us here: http://ancestralkitchenpodcast.com Podcast theme and audio production by Robert Michael Kay, find him at www.robertmichaelkay.com","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ancestral-kitchen-2045138"},"episode":{"title":"#132 - A Week of Ancestral Meals: what we really ate","slug":"132-a-week-of-ancestral-meals-what-we-really-ate","published_at":"2026-05-18T22:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ancestral-kitchen-2045138/132-a-week-of-ancestral-meals-what-we-really-ate","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ancestral-kitchen-2045138","url":"https://ancestralkitchenpodcast.com/2026/05/132-a-week-of-ancestral-meals-what-we-really-ate/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/abb4f78a-b5da-42e1-b5de-7463fb81f6d3.mp3","summary":"What was the last thing you ate? This is the question we always begin our podcast episodes with. The reason is because we always want to know what the other is fixing and cooking! What’s going on in your kitchen these days? What’s fresh and good? One of our earliest episodes recounts everything in our refrigerators at the moment! That was a lot of fun to record. Part of what drives this interest in what we are eating is developing the ideas and understanding of what a day in the life of ancestral food looks like in a world where you may be the only person you know who is eating anything like an ancestral or ancestrally inspired diet. A world where once upon a time it would have been the norm to eat this way, but now you are trying to create a life, habits, rolling tasks, completely on your own, and without the benefit of examples from your childhood or the people around you or expert cooks who live nearby and can give suggestions and show you a good way to use up chicken carcasses or how to feed a lot of small children filling food day after day. And another reason why is - there is something intangible we learn when we travel to a place, stay in a home and break bread with someone. It is an intimate communion that tells us something about that person. For this episode, we decided to track our meals for an entire week so you could see the shape of them - where some were more interesting, some were new and exciting, and others were leftovers, scraps, things we were just trying to use up. An ancestral diet is often made up of the mundane and simple, but exquisite foods. Pure in their sourcing, flavour, freshness but simple in their preparation and humble in their serving. To create a supporter bonus, I reached out to our supporter community and asked if they were willing…","meta_description":"What was the last thing you ate? This is the question we always begin our podcast episodes with. The reason is because we always want to know what the oth…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6641,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ancestral-kitchen-2045138/episodes/132-a-week-of-ancestral-meals-what-we-really-ate/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ancestral-kitchen-2045138/132-a-week-of-ancestral-meals-what-we-really-ate.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}