The Wild Kitchen - Introduction

Food has always been more than food.

It’s memory. It’s ritual. It’s how stories are passed, from one generation to the next.

The Wild Kitchen is a podcast about food — but really, it’s about the people, places, and ideas that gather around it.

Coming soon.

What is The Wild Kitchen?

Where food opens the door to conversations about craft, culture & tradition.

The Wild Kitchen Podcast
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Tiffany Bader: [00:00:00] Hey, I am Tiffany Bader. I'm launching a new podcast called The Wild Kitchen. I'm a professional chef by trade. Growing up as a kid, I spent my summers in Nova Scotia at my grandparents' farm. As a Gen Xer, looking back, we joke about drinking water outta hoses, and this was like, like Uber. Uber, gen X growing up, you know, catching brook trout on the stream behind the house, crawling around on my hands and knees, picking wild strawberries all day, catching frogs and salamanders and ditches.

It was. It was safe and it was free, and it was completely connected with the land and the people around me. And when we weren't running around getting dirty and, you know, crashing ATVs and ditches, we were sitting around the kitchen table sharing stories. Now, food's always been a massive part of my life and those, those incredibly enjoyable days in in Nova [00:01:00] Scotia to when I got older and started working as a chef.

I knew food was gonna always be part of it, but over time I realized that something was missing in those fast-paced professional kitchens. And I've been on a search to get a little bit closer to, to what really fuels me and makes my life enjoyable, and that is getting my hands dirty, getting out there and really being connected with the land during that.

That journey. I've met some pretty amazing people that have taught me a lot, and in this podcast, you're gonna hear some conversations. I've circled back and I've been able to get people that were incredibly influential in my own journey. And I'm gonna sit down and we're gonna have some great conversations.

We're gonna learn some cool stuff. Now, selfishly, these podcast recordings have been a way for me to meet and talk to people that I deeply respect and admire. They've also been a way for me to learn more about. Food and hunting and foraging [00:02:00] and fermenting and all the things that fuel and drive me today.

And I hope that these things excite you too. That you get motivated and hopefully feel a better connection to, to the world around you. Feel more empowered and inspired to be more self-sufficient, have greater control over the food that you eat, and feel like you're sitting down at the table with me and my guest.

And if you enjoy these conversations, I invite you to subscribe, follow along, and invite others to listen as well. I hope you enjoy the wild kitchen as much as I've enjoyed recording it.