Folklore Foods
Your food shall be your medicine and your medicine shall be your food. ~ Hippocrates
Ancestral culinary wisdom for nourishing your growing family traditional nutrient dense, sacred and healing foods……..
Changing your family’s eating habits can be deeply nourishing, but it can also be a major intimidating hassle, especially if the new fangled program doesn’t actually help you and your family……. There is soooo much information out there its hard to know what’s true unless you’re a scientist…… I know you want the very very best for your family……. I know……. argh, but it seems that no matter how hard you try you are still feeling lousy! OR maybe you feel great but it is soooo darn expensive to keep everyone on all those special supplements, remedies, and treatments, or maybe you just can’t find a good rhythm with your busy life……. or perhaps you are wanting to increase your fertility…… or maybe your child (or aging mother) has chronic illness of some sort and you want to get to the root……. or maybe you just have an intuition that something isn’t quite right and you want more radiant living……. whatever it is…… you’ll find a simple safe and advice-free space to explore traditional healing foods…….. for you and your family…..
You want to find your own culinary rhythm that resonates with ancestral culinary wisdom. You are committed to nourishing your growing family and want to get clear about what traditional, nutrient dense, sacred and healing foods are and how to prepare them properly…… You want to know the history and lore behind food and see it as a central part of your connection to yourself, to others, and to the earth. You have an inkling that the act of eating itself is ceremonial and want to embody that knowing more.
Sound good? Well, there’s more……
Who Folklore Foods is for:
- Mamas and Papas who want to feed themselves and their family the very best!
- Expectant parents wanting to build fertility and a healthy pregnancy
What you will come away with:
- All the basics required to make the shift away from processed food toward the rewarding rhythms of nutrient-dense, bio-available and deeply nourishing food.
- An overview of the Nutritional Science behind why these foods are so perennially good.
- A start to finding your own nourishing culinary rhythm that will feed, not drain, you.
- The basic hands-on knowledge of Sacred Food preparation
- Stories and Rituals to add depth and meaning to your daily and seasonal routine
Each weekend workshop covers the following topics:
- Raw & Cultured Milk: Pros and Cons of Raw milk, keeping it safe, Lazy Lady Yogurt, Kefir, creme fraische, cream cheese, whey…..
- Cultured Vegetables: Science of Kitchen Kulturing, Sauerkraut, Spicy Carrots, ginger carrots, lacto-fermented pickles,
- Fermented Grains: Lower gluten content of your grains to protect your family from gluten intolerance, increase bio-availability of nutrients in grain, discover the incredible balm of grinding and loving your grains! Yogurt Dough, Injera, pancakes and non-horrible-for-your-body granola.
- Traditional Fats: Learn the value of traditional fats and why they were considered sacred in traditional cultures. Learn which ones to use for what kinds of tasks. Butter, Cream, Tallow and Lard.
- Bone Stock: Every healthy culture used either dairy products OR bone stocks for adequate minerals. Learn how to make fish, chicken and beef bone stock and get ideas of how to incorporate stock into your culinary rhythm. Also: The Why, but more importantly, the “HOW” to get those organ meats to have a not-discusting taste! Paté, meatballs, raw liver smoothies and more….
- Traditional Sodas: Refreshing, vitamin / mineral rich, and highly bio-available, lacto-fermented sodas are fun to make. And your family will love them more than juice or cola!!!
What Folklore Foods isn’t:
- A hardcore guilt-ridden self-deprivation diet……… traditional people enjoyed their food and its place in community and connection to the earth. Let’s do that too!!!
- An overnight solution……. like all real transformation, changing your foodways takes time……. What I can promise is that as you implement a new relationship to food you can gain a wonderful rhythm that nourishes you and your family rather than a food plan that takes a lot of time and money and drains you!
When:
Fall of 2010
- Saturday, October 16, 10am – 4pm: Raw & Cultured milk, Cultured Vegetables, Fermented Grains
- Sunday, October 17, 10am – 4pm: Traditional Fats, Bone Stock & Organ Meats, Traditional Sodas
Where:
At the Tierra Soul Urban Farmhouse ~ we’ll send you the address when you register!
Your Investment:
$250
plus the cost of Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Full Moon Feast, by Jessica Prentice. These books will be available when you come to class or you can purchase them independently ahead of time.
