The Sovereign Kitchen Society

I'm Molly Bravo. I'm a chef by trade and homeschool mom who has spent years catering beautiful farm-to-table events in the Santa Cruz Mountains before realizing the most important table I needed to feed was my own. My grandmother Alberta didn't have a meal plan. She didn't have DoorDash. She had a pantry, a pressure canner, a sourdough starter that lived on her counter for decades, and the kind of confidence that comes from knowing that no matter what happened out there, her family was going to eat. The Sovereign Kitchen Society is a weekly deep dive into the kitchen skills our grandparents practiced without thinking. (The ones that kept families fed, healthy, and self-sufficient long before the grocery store became the whole plan.) Every episode goes deep on one skill. The history behind it. What happened when we stopped doing it. And exactly how to do it yourself, starting this week, in the kitchen you already have. We cover fermentation, bone broth, sourdough, pressure canning, water bath canning, seasonal sourcing, pantry building, whole animal cooking, seed saving, herbal remedies, and scratch cooking that makes your grocery bill shrink and your family's health transform. My first book, The Essential Canning Cookbook, is your starting point for food preservation. My second book, coming soon, is about building a pantry that will support you, no matter what is going on in the world. This show lives between those two books and goes deeper than either of them. If you've felt the pull toward a slower, more intentional life and toward knowing where your food comes from, building real skills with your hands, and raising the next generation with the confidence that comes from true self-sufficiency, pull up a chair. We're gathering the wisdom of our elders. We're passing it forward. And we're building kitchens that can feed our families no matter what. New episodes every week. Go deeper at wylderspace.com/education