Cooking From Scratch Podcast

About Cooking From Scratch Podcast

Healthy Eating and Mindful Meals for Women 40+ Welcome to the first non-cooking cooking podcast! Join Aliye Aydin as she inspires you to create nourishing, from-scratch meals that heal your body and soul. In each episode, Aliye chats with chefs, health coaches, doctors, farmers, nutritionists, and healers to explore their unique perspectives on cooking, culture, healing, and mindfulness. Aliye, born and raised in sunny Southern California, discovered her love for cooking as a healing tool following a scary health diagnosis in her teens. She learned to cook to implement necessary dietary changes, which not only helped her heal but also shaped her life's work. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Aliye traveled extensively, diving into international cuisines and cooking alongside grandmas and aunties, including exploring her heritage in Türkiye. Upon returning to the U.S., she attended culinary school and gained experience in various restaurants and catering kitchens. Aliye worked as a culinary instructor and personal chef, and even ran a farm-to-door organic produce delivery service for 8 years in Long Beach, CA, building relationships with top growers and producers. As a certified facilitator in Spiritual Literacy and Transformative Practices, Aliye incorporates mindfulness and principles like hospitality, gratitude, presence, and listening, and more into her cooking, enhancing the overall experience and fulfillment. Aliye empowers her students to make healthy eating easy, delicious, and fun, without spending hours in the kitchen! Explore her latest courses and offerings at www.soulspacechef.com (http://www.soulspacechef.com/).

Publisher

Aliye Aydin

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Aug 2024

Latest episode

13 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Nov 2025

   EASY Food Portions: Stay Full Without Calorie Counting with Dariella Gonitzke

   Functional nutritionist Dariella Gonitzke explains easy food portions and the plate method, especially for midlife women, in an interview about intuitive eating and mindful satiety.

2. 

   7 Nov 2025

   5 Things I Quit to Make Healthy Cooking Easy After 40

   Host Aliye shares five things she quit to simplify healthy cooking after 40, helping listeners escape the pressure of perfection and achieve their wellness goals.

3. 

   3 Oct 2025

   Unlocking Deeper Nourishment for Women 40+: Can Sleep Fix Your Appetite & Hormones?

   This episode explores how women over 40 can use sleep to regulate hormones and manage appetite, leading to deeper nourishment.

Who has been a guest on Cooking From Scratch Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dariella Gonitzke
• Aliye Ayd
• Aliye Aydin
• Ilkay Basugur

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

88,477

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

20

Social presence

91

YouTube

76

Engagement

0