130: Invisible Labour Behind Chicken Nuggets: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Industry with Alice Driver
We've heard stories about how chicken nuggets are riddled with questionable ingredients, but what gets missed when looking at industrial meat production is those who process a nation's worth of meat a...
3 Sep 202430min
129: Third Culture Cooking, TikTok Foods, and Kung Food Cookbook with Jon Kung
For our last episode this season, we're exploring what it means to cook from a third culture kitchen. There's been growing discussions online of what it means to be a third culture kid or a third cult...
28 Maj 202434min
128: Heydays at the June Motel - Translating a Lakeside Summer Cuisine into a Cookbook with Katie Laliberté
Here in Ontario, we're just hitting the warmer spring weather after a grey and cloudy winter, and anyone living up north can attest to the amount of daydreaming we do about our future and past summer ...
14 Maj 202436min
127: How Local Journalism Explores the Foods of the American South with Hanna Raskin of The Food Section
News media at large is in a challenging position this year: we've seen mass layoffs across digital media, local news, TV, print, even podcasts and documentaries. There's shifts in audiences, loss of j...
9 Apr 202427min
126: The Ikaria Way: How Mostly Plant-Based Foods Maintain a Greek Island's Longevity with Diane Kochilas
You may be familiar with the Greek island of Ikaria through the popularity of "Blue Zones" and the idea that these regions of the world can provide insights into living longer, healthier lives. Yet as...
3 Apr 202438min
125: Sesame, Soy, Spice: Using Plant-Based Recipes to Honour Heritage and Healing with Remy Morimoto Park
Thinking about "typical" types of veganism can reveal a lot of fascinating Western stereotypes or biases around what it does and doesn't entail. And yet so many cultural cuisines from around the world...
26 Mars 202436min
124: How Microgreens Weave Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science for Food Futures with Natalie Paterson
One of the pitfalls in sustainability movements is this assumption that we're all working from an equal playing field, when the reality is that oftentimes we don't have the home space or the time to g...
19 Mars 202447min
123: The Power of Showcasing Immigrant Restaurant Stories with Maggie Leandre of CharisMaggieTV
If you've been a regular listener to this podcast, you know that food is central to all of our discussions around identity, culture, belonging, and sense of place. My guest today is someone who excels...
12 Mars 202437min
