115: Unboxing the History of TV Dinners with Jeff Swystun
When you think about the concept of a TV dinner, there is a wash of nostalgia that can takeover how you remember the tastes and functions of the dinner itself. But the story of how these TV dinners ca...
16 Jan 202439min
114: Honouring Maternal Ancestries through Cooking and Restaurant Development with Ruben Rodriguez of Nai Restaurant Groups
Alright everyone, this is the first episode back after the holiday break, so I hope that this finds you rested, stuffed, and balancing all the new year expectations as well as you can be! For today'...
9 Jan 202441min
113: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security with Dr. Matias Margulis
Before we jump into today's show, I wanted to give listeners a heads up that today is the last AnthroDish episode for 2023, but we will be returning with more episodes this season on Tuesday, January ...
5 Des 202340min
112: Dinner on Mars - How Technologies that Could Feed the Red Planet Can Transform Agriculture on Earth
What happens when two food scientists get bored in a pandemic? It turns out, they start to brainstorm how they would feed a colony of humans on Mars. What might seem like a trivial question is actuall...
28 Nov 202328min
111: Reframing Cookbooks, and Salad as Comfort Food with Nat and Bec Davey of Reframeables
When you think about comfort food, what types of meals or dishes come to mind – is it mashed potatoes and gravy, the best of your grandmother's kitchens, or a chickpea curry? Often we have this idea a...
21 Nov 202356min
110: Creating Safer Community for Breweries and Vulnerable Neighbours with Ren Navarro of B.Diversity
Alcohol has been navigating a new social landscape in America and Canada since COVID hit. While there were signs that alcohol consumption was rising with lockdowns, there's also been more spaces for c...
14 Nov 202337min
109: Campus Food System Alternatives as Organizing Tools with Dr. Michael Classens
When we think about food security and food systems, it can easily be imagined as a large national or state or provincial level experience. Yet many young adults increasingly are experiencing the uniqu...
7 Nov 202332min
108: Understanding Community through Fermentation with Dr. Julia Skinner
In 2023, we're facing increased food prices, tech-heavy innovations around lab grown foods for climate change, and heavily industrialized and packaged foods. Amidst that, though, there's still interes...
31 Okt 202341min
