Welcome to another edition of the Real Food Kitchen Tour. This week we're featuring Emily Bartlett of the Holistic Kid blog.
What's a Real Foodie?
A “real foodie” is someone who cooks “traditional” food. We cook stuff from scratch using real ingredients, like raw milk, grass-fed beef, eggs from chickens that run around outdoors, whole grains, sourdough and yogurt starters, mineral-rich sea salt, and natural sweeteners like honey and real maple syrup.
We don't use modern foods that are either fake, super-refined, or denatured. This includes modern vegetable oils like Crisco and margarine, soy milk, meat from factory farms, pasteurized milk from cows eating corn and soybeans, refined white flour, factory-made sweeteners like HFCS or even refined white sugar, or commercial yeast.
We believe in eating wholesome, nutrient-dense foods that come from nature. So we shop at farmer's markets or buy direct from the farmer, or we grow food in our own backyards.
This Week's Real Food Kitchen Tour: Holistic Kid
This week I'm featuring Emily Bartlett of the Holistic Kid blog.
Emily is an acupuncturist and holistic practitioner. Her grandmother was the shaman-healer in her village in the Philippines; her father was a Western family doctor here in the U.S.
Emily is also a friend of mine. We love hanging out with her and her husband Anthony and their kids. I'm going to be sad to leave her here in Los Angeles, but I'll be back often for visits.
She's especially lucky because her husband is totally on board with this way of eating. “On board” is an understatement — he's just short of being a zealot. He'll talk your ear off about the dangers of soy, why grass-fed meat and dairy is so important, and fermented foods.
But we love that about him!

Blog Name : Holistic Kid
Blog Author: Emily Bartlett
How Long Blogging: Seven months about nutrient dense, real food; about 3 years about holistic health. I practice acupuncture and holistic medicine for kids and families. Over the years, I've become more confident in sharing my nutritional principles with my patients and readers. In the beginning, if they were vegan or eating a diet full of modern junk, I didn't say much unless it was obviously affecting their health. After years of seeing health issues (from eczema to autism, PMS to infertility) either caused or exacerbated by poor diet, I now feel that it’s my responsibility to educate and inspire optimal health through nourishing food.
Location : Los Angeles, CA
House or Apartment: House in Topanga Canyon. It's the best of both worlds — 30 minutes to the city, chickens next door and coyotes howling at night.
Size of Kitchen: Perfect sized. Big enough for someone to do the washing up while the someone else is cooking.
Things You Love About Your Kitchen: We did a big remodel when we moved in July 2009. It was pretty gnarly before that with the stove facing the wall and cornered into the sink and sticky, gross outdated cabinetry. Now bright and open, the stove looks across dining area and breakfast bar so family and guests can visit and chat while I work. I love my double farmhouse sink. I have plenty of counter space, and tons of dreamy cabinets. My fridge is roomy and quiet (the old one hummed and groaned). Big window looks out to greenery and a mountain views.
Things You Would Change: I could use a few shelves in my cabinets (hint, hint, honey!), and I'd love a tiled backsplash. Also, my double oven has a noisy fan that I wish I could silence. Other than that, nothing!
Favorite Tools & Gadgets: Immersion blender. Food processor. My strainers and funnels. Ice cream maker. Le Creuset Dutch oven. Soup scum spoon. And I couldn't live without my trusty kitchen gloves and jars.
Biggest Challenges Cooking Real Food: I don't do it if it feels too challenging! I cook when I'm inspired, and don't when I'm not, that way I just don't get burnt out. I used to get discouraged if something got ruined or didn't turn out great. Now I just shrug it off and move on.
Current Family Favorite Meal: So hard to pick just one! For me, it's definitely carnitas. Or steamed clams in butter and white wine. Breakfast is big in my house… my son is really into french toast made with sour bread and pastured eggs. My husband says he loves everything I make. The baby, well, she'll eat just about everything too, but I love to watch her eat clams and oysters.
Favorite Cookbooks: Nourishing Traditions and the great cyber cookbook known as the internet.
Here are some photos of Emily's kitchen (with her comments in and quotes and mine not in italics):
My kitchen. Designed for me by me (and my hubby.)
I love how modern it is! I'm planning the design for my new kitchen (in the new house we'll be moving into in the next few months) and I definitely want something modern like this.
I think that's the same white high chair I have — is it from IKEA?
View from the kitchen through the dining room to the backyard.
I love kitchens that let you look out into the backyard. You can keep an eye on the little ones while you cook. I definitely want this in my new kitchen!
The Pantry. Love my new two gallon ‘bucha jar. Nothing packaged in here other than the unpasteurized soy sauce, Italian tomatoes, and cold pressed olive oil.
Space saving spice rack, rice soaking, and some stuff culturing on the counter.
Dills flanked by cultured bevvies.
Homemade granola, beans and grains.
LOVE the glass jars! Where did you get them?
Before the renovation – sticky cabinets, electric stove backed against the wall and a weird wheely island. We've since painted the ceiling, stained the floor dark, and replaced everything but the double oven.
Cultured lemonade, pickled veg, and farm box fruit ripening on the counter.
My giant pot of happiness.
Ha ha! That has to be one of the cutest baby pictures I've ever seen. I hope you have it framed!


He looks like a British Mod rocker in this pic. (A la The Small Faces.)
Check Out the Previous Real Food Kitchen Tour Posts
Real Food Kitchen Tour: Artistta
Real Food Kitchen Tour: Nourished & Nurtured
Real Food Kitchen Tour: May All Seasons Be Sweet to Thee
Real Food Kitchen Tour: The Horting Family
Real Food Kitchen Tour: Hybrid Rasta Mama
Real Food Kitchen Tour: Granola Mom 4 God
Real Food Kitchen Tour: Real Food Devotee
Real Food Kitchen Tour: Real Food Forager
Real Food Kitchen Tour: The Leftover Queen
Real Food Kitchen Tour: Health Home & Happiness
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Photo credit: A warm welcome Project365(3) Day 10 by Keith Williamson, on Flickr and photos by Memories by Michelle
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Emily is a wonderful woman & a fantastic holistic practitioner. I hear the rave reviews far & wide. Now I know she has a super kitchen to suit her super duperness. Love this post! Thank you!
Beautiful kitchen and beautiful family!!! :)
I would love to know where you purchased the glass jars for storage! I currently keep my flour, sugar, corn meal, etc… in plastic rubbermaid but I’m itching for glass. Thank you!
I want to know, too!
I think glass is good for storing whole grains such as dent corn or whole wheat berries, and sugar is fine, but I would not store cornmeal or flour in glass. They go rancid easily. I store my sprouted flour and sprouted cornmeal in the freezer.
I’ve never had cornmeal or flour to go rancid! It’s never around my house long enough I guess. Thanks for the info AND for taking up for ~foodies~. (!) :)
I did an online search and found a couple of different designs at Pier One. I ended up bringing home the ones w/ the tiny chalkboard on the front; complete w/ chalk! Here is the link: https://www.pier1.com/Catalog/Dining/tabid/977/CategoryId/117/ProductId/1579/ProductName/Chalkboard-Jars/Default.aspx
I love those jars too! Unfortunately I bought them about six years ago at Pier One. I got a few then, went back for more, and they were on clearance so I bought them all! Recently though, I got my new 2 gallon kombucha jar at Target – inspired by Real Food Devotee’s kitchen tour. That might be a good alternative choice for storing dried goods. :)
Great kitchen tour! I, too, love those fluted glass jars and would like to know where you got them. I’m also curious to know what kind of soup scum spoon you have. Thanks.
I love the picture of your daughter in the stock pot…adorable ! I love all your ferments too !
This is so cute! I love the “pot full of happiness”- that IS a great baby pic :) I need to get a bigger kombucha jar…it’s getting hairy with multiple glass bowls…and I’m running out of space on my culturing shelf (i.e. the bookcase in my office- lol)
THAT IS one of the cutest baby pictures I’ve ever seen!!
I know! Her children are too adorable in these pictures!
That spice rack is great. I have all my spices in a big huddle in my food cupboard and can never find what i want.
Bravo!!!!!!
I love the mentality of trying to only shop farmers markets or buying farmer direct. Here on Long Island, we have so many farms and farm stands that I rarely have to step foot in a market.
Thanks for bringing back the idea that old school cooking with quality no chemical filled ingredients is the way to go! Butter and local cheese and creams. mmmmm.
You guys rock!
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LOVE all the cultured veggies!! Looks delicious! Can I come over for dinner??? :)
this was a great tour, thank you. I’ve just gotten into fermentation, really like the dill pickles and salsa, where do fermenters store all this good stuff?
I want to know where to get the spice jars that are magnetized to the side of the fridge.
I got some of them at Cost Plus and some at the container store: https://www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10011223&N=&Ntt=Magnetic+Spice+Tins+Pkg%2F3.
But I’ve also see something similar at Ikea:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80102919
I got some a few years ago at Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Congratulations! I had a great time eating healthy a few weeks ago.
Beautiful kitchen, beautiful mama, beautiful family! Love the modern re-do, Emily!
Love the giant pot of happiness – and I love how your family has embraced all kinds of healing techniques. Such a wonderful story!