This Old Baker Podcast Episode 56: The Return of Grandma Skills

This Old Baker Podcast · Jul 23, 2026 · 8m

The skills our grandmothers had — scratch cooking, canning, pantry management, bread baking, stretching every ingredient — were dismissed for a generation as old-fashioned and unnecessary. They're coming back now, and not as a trend. In this episode, Kim talks about why these skills disappeared, what's driving their return, and what she wants the people who never stopped doing them to hear: what you know has always mattered, and the world is finally catching up.