The Sovereign Kitchen Society is a weekly gathering place for people who feel the pull toward a life rooted in real food, personal sovereignty, family economy, and the old-world skills our grandparents treated as ordinary.
This podcast sits at the intersection of food and freedom. Each episode is a conversation with chefs, farmers and entrepreneurs who chose to step outside the modern maze and build a life that actually feeds them. We talk about the turning points—the moments when someone realized the system wasn’t going to save them, so they learned to save themselves. We talk about canning and cattle and kitchen-table businesses. But beneath it all, we’re talking about sovereignty: how you reclaim your time, your health, your income, and the way you feed your family.
You’ll hear how people turned old-world skills into income streams, rebuilt their nervous systems in their kitchens, raised children on broth instead of boxed snacks, and created home economies strong enough to withstand the noise of the outside world. You’ll learn how entrepreneurship can come from a single recipe, a garden bed, a batch of ferments, or a service you offer with your own two hands.
The Sovereign Kitchen Society helps you remember what you already know:
Food is freedom.
Skills are security.
And a family economy—no matter how small—can change everything.
For a Deep Dive, join us in the Pantry of Plenty
Grab your copy of The Essential Canning Cookbook
The Sovereign Kitchen Society is a weekly gathering place for people who feel the pull toward a life rooted in real food, personal sovereignty, family economy, and the old-world skills our grandparents treated as ordinary.
This podcast sits at the intersection of food and freedom. Each episode is a conversation with chefs, farmers and entrepreneurs who chose to step outside the modern maze and build a life that actually feeds them. We talk about the turning points—the moments when someone realized the system wasn’t going to save them, so they learned to save themselves. We talk about canning and cattle and kitchen-table businesses. But beneath it all, we’re talking about sovereignty: how you reclaim your time, your health, your income, and the way you feed your family.
You’ll hear how people turned old-world skills into income streams, rebuilt their nervous systems in their kitchens, raised children on broth instead of boxed snacks, and created home economies strong enough to withstand the noise of the outside world. You’ll learn how entrepreneurship can come from a single recipe, a garden bed, a batch of ferments, or a service you offer with your own two hands.
The Sovereign Kitchen Society helps you remember what you already know:
Food is freedom.
Skills are security.
And a family economy—no matter how small—can change everything.
For a Deep Dive, join us in the Pantry of Plenty
Grab your copy of The Essential Canning Cookbook
A locked cabinet. 212 vintage cookbooks. And a woman history forgot.
In this episode, writer and researcher Julie Dove takes us inside the mystery that changed her life: moving into an abandoned house in eastern Washington (2006) and discovering a hidden trove of cookbooks that belonged to Estella—a hostess with no children, no memoir, no obvious trail. Julie has spent years reconstructing Estella’s life from recipes, newspaper clippings, and the rhythms of gatherings she once hosted. Through her Substack, A Sense of Occasion, she cooks the dishes, follows the breadcrumbs, and shows how food can stitch people together across decades.
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Connect with Julie: A Sense of Occasion on Substack → https://julieannedove.substack.com
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