A Traditional Foods Manifesto

Every culture is steeped in a rich, nourishing food heritage teeming with foods and recipes that were once prepared in the simplest ways using wholesome ingredients provided by Mother Nature. All of our ancestors ate traditional foods because that was their only choice. There was no such thing as modernity and its convenience food like sickeningly sweet corn syrup solids, thickening agents like guar gum or soy-fed, and fattened meat.

Countless foods, cooking methods, and animal husbandry practices that once were traditionally practiced have lost their soul to convenience and Big Ag.

While you don’t have to dogmatically or rigidly adhere to ‘only eating traditional foods, ’ I feel there’s something valuable and important about learning what traditional/ancestral food practices entail and how to incorporate those that feel attainable into your life as your life allows. There are many reasons why reconnecting with traditional food methods is an important relationship to re-establish. I will discuss this relationship throughout this post.

First, I want to shed light on a few different topics of traditional food that are quickly becoming extinct yet are invaluable to our nourishment, gut microbiome, survival, and connectedness to the food we eat. If we can preserve these methods like one would a species on the verge of extinction, we will be healthier, more connected, and have a priceless tradition to pass down to our children, friends, and loved ones.

Continue reading this post on the Eat Heal Farm Substack or tune into the Eat Heal Farm Podcast episode, Traditional Foods Manifesto.

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