Because food once had fewer ingredients.

Salt

Sea salt is a timeless ingredient, harvested from the sea and used for centuries in its natural form long before modern refining and additives altered the salt we know today.

Honey

Honey is a natural sweetener produced by bees and used for thousands of years, remaining one of the few foods that exists today in nearly the same form as it did long before industrial processing.

Wine Vinegar

Wine vinegar is a naturally fermented acid made from wine and was the primary cooking vinegar in many 1825 kitchens, valued for flavor, preservation, and simplicity long before industrial production.

Einkorn Wheat
Triticum monococcum

Hulled Wheat

Einkorn wheat is the oldest cultivated form of wheat, grown for thousands of years and still available today in nearly the same simple, non-hybrid form known long before 1825.

Emmer Wheat
Triticum dicoccum

Hulled Tetraploid Wheat

Emmer wheat is an ancient grain cultivated for thousands of years and still grown today in its original form, offering a direct connection to the wheat eaten long before 1825.