151: What Can Local and Seasonal Food Networks Look Like? with Colin Fontaine
Perhaps now more than ever, there's renewed appreciation for the intricacies of our food systems' deep dependence on a global supply chain. However, that also raises challenges around our relationship...
29 Apr 202528min
150: Italian Pasta Nights with an American Accent with Renato Poliafito
Throughout this season, we've been exploring immigrant narratives around food: roles in food systems, labour, and diasporic food stories. Part of this is making sense of the "ish" elements to identiti...
22 Apr 202531min
149: Unbottling the Problems of Bottled Water with Daniel Jaffee
A plastic bottle of water powerfully represents the state of our current environmental and health priorities. That water can become commodified while being an essential public service means that who g...
15 Apr 202557min
148: Masala, Maíz, and Movement - Ingredients for Decolonizing Plates with Norma Listman and Saqib Keval
On the show today are Norma Listman and Saqib Keval, looking at the solutions and communities that can be built when activism and ethical values are at the forefront of food creation. Norma and Saqib ...
1 Apr 202538min
147: What Canada Ate - The Role of Cookbooks in Culinary History with Dr. Rebecca Beausaert
As most historians will tell you, the past can help make sense of a lot of the present, but maybe in unexpected or novel ways—like through cookbooks! We're living in an intense period (I probably alwa...
18 Mar 202534min
146: Flavour's Role in Food System Fixes with Franco Fubini
The idea of industrial food systems is flat, heavy, and feels complex to access. It brings up connotations of very bland, hyper-processed foods made to reach a large number of people at a low cost. Th...
12 Mar 202536min
145: Exploring the Biodiversity of Climate-Smart Crops with Shreema Mehta
Industrial food systems tend to use mono-crop and unilinear approaches to supplying the Global North with food. But what happens when we consider more diverse crops? My guest today, Shreema Mehta, wil...
4 Mar 202525min
144: The Rich History of Georgian Wines with Sarah May Grunwald
When it comes to wine, I have a tendency to retreat and panic: I don't know anything, and I certainly don't feel like I have the means to access the knowledge. I often wonder if that's a common experi...
25 Feb 202553min
