Fun with Fermentation | Jan 15, 2022
Join Dr. Bill at the Modern Stone Age Kitchen on Saturday January 15 to learn the basics of fermented vegetables.
Sourdough Bread Making Class | Jan 8, 2022
Hands-on sourdough bread making class on January 8, 2022 at the Modern Stone Age Kitchen In Chestertown, MD
Scratch Class
Today cooking from scratch means unwrapping a variety of pre-made foods, mixing them together and nuking it on high for a few minutes! This is not scratch cooking and doesn't teach us anything about our food, allow us control over ingredients, and it certainly doesn't make our food any healthier!
Animal Fats
From cheese, salami, sauerkraut and kimchi to bread, beer and wine almost all of our favorite and, in some cases most nutrient dense foods are fermented. This, perhaps the earliest of food processing technologies, is entirely accessible to the home cook and is an excellent way to improve the taste and nutrition of your food!
Fermentation
From cheese, salami, sauerkraut and kimchi to bread, beer and wine almost all of our favorite and, in some cases most nutrient dense foods are fermented. This, perhaps the earliest of food processing technologies, is entirely accessible to the home cook and is an excellent way to improve the taste and nutrition of your food!
Foraging
Foraging is one of the easiest ways to reconnect with your environment and your food!
Sourdough
The jury is still out on whether grains were first fermented for bread or for beer but, either way, humans have been using wild yeasts and bacteria to transform wheat into a more digestible and healthier product for approximately 10,000 years. Unfortunately, the bread of our ancestors is nothing like the bread commercially available to use today.
Nose-to-Tail Class
Today only about 50-55% of an animal is considered food and is available on our grocery store shelves! Not only is this a wasteful and disrespectful practice, but we are also missing the most nutrient dense parts of the the animal – organs, blood and fat! In nature, when an animal is killed, the predator …
Fire Side Cooking
Arm yourself with a basic understanding of how to control fire and use a number of simple technologies to create almost any cooking environment.