our unique approach

It’s not about WHAT we eat, but HOW we eat it.

For 3.5 million years, humans never asked, “what should I be eating?” Instinctively, they knew what foods would satiate and nourish themselves and their communities. This power has been stripped from many of us by the modern industrial food system. We struggle to identify what a healthy human diet is. Our family has been fortunate to travel the globe researching ancestral diets and reclaiming the power to feed our family nutritious foods. We did the work and we are now ready to help empower you to eat like a human through delicious food, classes, and retreats!

At the Modern Stone Age Kitchen, located in Chestertown, Maryland, we transform familiar foods such as bread, pizza, cheese, tacos, soups, sandwiches and even cookies into their healthiest versions by using ancestral and traditional approaches to maximize the safety, nutritional value, and flavor of everything we produce.

All of our food is made 100% from scratch in-house.

We ferment all of our grains using a wild, long fermented sourdough process; nixtamalize our maize; soak all nuts, seeds and legumes; butcher and cook using a nose-to-tail approach; make our own fermented dairy products including cheese, yogurt, and fermented butter, and rely upon solely on unrefined sweeteners and animal based fats for cooking to optimize the safety and nutritional value of our foods. Stop in and taste the difference of true scratch cooking.

Take a listen to these informative videos that begin to explain this unique approach to food, diet and nutrition

We ate better 15,000 years ago

Find out why the processes we have in place today in the food industry lead to a less healthy and enriched lifestyle specifically talking about the shift in how humans eat animals.

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Should humans eat bread?

I get asked this question All. The. Time.
Yes, you can eat bread! You just need to eat it like a duck 😉

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Intro to Eat Like a Human

Bill and Christina led an informal virtual zoom session about our unique approach to food and nutrition. We shared info about the Modern Stone Age Kitchen and the Eastern Shore Food Lab, plus some exciting food production updates, and most importantly explained the powerful research behind how to eat like a human.

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Should humans drink milk?

The way that we produce and consume dairy today is nothing like it’s been for thousands of years. It has resulted in nutritionally inferior foods. The cows are fed differently, the milk is treated differently and we even eat it differently. The key to unlocking dairy's potential lies in its past.

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