Welcome to the very first episode of Alchemy Kitchen, the monthly gathering where food is frequency and the kitchen becomes a place of deep remembering.
This episode came alive in ways we did not fully anticipate. What started as a cooking demonstration became something richer. That is exactly what Alchemy Kitchen is meant to be.
What Is Alchemy Kitchen?
Alchemy Kitchen is a monthly experience rooted in one simple truth: what we bring into our bodies carries more than nutrients. It carries vibration, memory, and intention. Every ingredient holds a story. Every meal prepared with care becomes a practice of nourishing not just the physical body, but the whole self.
Mark serves as the hands in the kitchen, The Maker who brings the recipe to life, while Natalie offers the deeper context as The Storyteller, sharing the vibrational and historical wisdom woven into what we are creating together. The result is food that tastes extraordinary and carries meaning.
Why Figgy Pudding?
Figs are one of the oldest cultivated fruits on Earth, and this episode explores why. Paired with the bright solar frequency of oranges, this is a dessert that carries far more than sweetness. We go deep into the ancient relationship between these two ingredients and what they have meant to cultures across thousands of years.
We will leave the rest for the episode itself, because some things are better experienced than explained.
What we share here is a glimpse of what lives inside our full Alchemy Kitchen gatherings, both online and in person at One Song Grove in Jonesborough, Eastern Tennessee.
Gather. Eat. Transform.
🏡 WANT THE FULL ALCHEMY KITCHEN EXPERIENCE
Alchemy Kitchen is one of the offerings inside the Forge and Flow Inner Sanctum, our online and in-person membership community launching within March of 2026. If this feels like your kind of thing, we would love to have you on the list to be notified when doors open.
This is our VERY FIRST Alchemy Kitchen episode! This is where we remember that food is frequency…
Forge and Flow is about working from 3 pillars:
We all can liberate our inner splendor when we eat with purpose, move with purpose, and work with purpose.
We’re creating a Sanctum both online and in person. Imagine your body is like a musical instrument and it’s a powerful instrument, but also an ENTIRE SYMPHONY simultaneously…
When you’re healthy and happy, feeling great in your body, you’re in coherence. This means all your strings are in tune. But when you’re tired, stressed, or there is illness, that means some of your strings get out of tune. We help you get back into total symphonic alignment, creating resonance from within.
We’re bringing Alchemy Kitchen to life, it brings a class, story, and sacred food together into one. This is only the beginning...
This is now going to be an ongoing offering monthly within our online sanctum (and then locally in person here in Eastern TN where we live for a SUPER small group.
This is the Pillar reminding us all to Eat With Purpose: Reconnect to food that feeds your vitality. Learn WHY specific foods matter. Enjoy recipes to cook at home for you and your loved ones (or if you’re in our region in Eastern TN, come join the class LIVE) , learn ways to hydrate, and fully nourish your body with real ingredients and ancient principles (this is the ancient practices of nourishment for our modern day).
Today, we open with something sweet, slow, and joy-filled Figgy Pudding. This was something we made during a 12-Day Harmonic Alignment journey (which will be coming out later this year 2026!), and this dish is a really nice dessert that can be made any time. It offers sweetness and sacred memory that’s made edible
This isn’t just a yummy dessert but it’s vibrational nourishment!
Today’s recipe is a simple reminder that figs and dates become an elixir of sweetness and warmth, a treat that vibrates with memory.
What Is Alchemy Kitchen?
This isn't a cooking class or cooking show per se. This is something ancient being remembered through us.
Alchemy Kitchen is where we come together each month to prepare food that carries vibrational properties, food that works not just with your physical body but with your energy field, your emotional body, and your capacity to remember who you truly are. We believe food is frequency. Certain plants and preparations, when approached with intention and understanding, support specific aspects of your restoration. Some foods work with your voice. Others support your digestive fire, your heart coherence, your boundaries, or your capacity to ground into Earth's natural rhythms.
At Forge and Flow, Mark brings movement and breath through Qigong and Tai Chi, and Natalie brings vibrational restoration through mineral rebalancing, flower essences, herbalism, and more... and together they bring breath work, stillness/meditative experiences, and now Alchemy Kitchen!
Alchemy Kitchen is the third pillar to EAT WITH PURPOSE. Because you can do all the movement practices and take all the supplements, but if you're eating food disconnected from frequency, prepared without intention, and consumed without awareness, you're missing one of the most powerful restoration tools available to you.
Food touches your cells three times a day, every single day. When you align that with intentional preparation and vibrational understanding, you're participating in one of humanity's oldest forms of restoration.
Why Figgy Pudding for Episode 1?
We didn't choose this recipe randomly. We chose it because it carries vibrational properties that speak directly to something most of us are working on right now: our voice, our truth, and our capacity to speak it.
The Frequency of Figs: Voice Carriers and Memory Keepers
The word "pudding" comes from Old English puduc, meaning a small enclosed sac or swelling. Symbolically, a womb of sweetness. When we pair that with figs, we get what we've come to call "a womb of voice-seeds made sweet."
Figs are extraordinary. They enclose spiral seeds of memory, much like the voice holds ancestral codes before expression even begins. Think of the fig as a throat-chamber, not just biologically but energetically. In ancient traditions across the world, figs were eaten by oracles, seers, and prophets to open their voice fields before divination. In Ancient Egypt, figs were buried with the dead as symbols of remembrance and return, the soul's voice echoing back to Source.
On a mineral level, figs are rich in calcium, magnesium, and potassium — the very minerals your body uses for vocal muscle conductivity and neural-larynx alignment. This isn't metaphor. This is your body's actual architecture for voice.
The Solar Frequency of Orange: Light Made Edible
Then we crowned the pudding with something luminous: an Orange Cream Frosting.
Oranges carry solar frequency. They're literally light made edible. Orange works directly with your solar plexus, your power center, your digestive fire, your confidence. Vitamin C in its crystalline form (WHOLEFOOD FORM, NOT ASCORBIC ACIDE WHICH IS SYNTHETIC) isn't just immune support, it's cellular light transmission. And orange peel especially carries essential oils that lift stagnation and bring movement to stuck energy.
Where fig goes inward (spiraling, remembering, preparing the voice), orange radiates outward (warmth, expression, the voice made confident and clear).
The Harmonic Pairing
What we created was a complete circuit:
Fig = Magnetic / Receptive — drawing in memory, preparing the voice field, moistening the throat
Orange = Electric / Active — radiating warmth, activating expression, bringing solar vitality
Together, they support your entire throat-to-solar-plexus channel, helping you speak from your power center, rooted in ancestral memory, cleared of obstruction.
This is how we think about every recipe in Alchemy Kitchen. We're not just following instructions. We're participating in vibrational wisdom that's been known for thousands of years and is being remembered through us now.
Before the First Bite
Each Alchemy Kitchen will include a specific blessing, a beautiful intention. Before eating this one, you could speak:
"I offer this sweet breath to the remembering. May my voice carry what is good, ancient, and whole."
This simple intention turns eating into something more. It reminds your body that this food carries purpose, that you're not just consuming calories but receiving restoration.
🌿 If you’d like the recipe and want the recipe to keep, grab the printable recipe card here: Get the Full Recipe