Foodstuffs
A podcast about food and culture, and their intersections. Hosted by Jessica Walker & Bryan Goman. Episodes released every second Wednesday.
Episodes
May 17, 2017 • 31 mins
This week, we learn what the elements that give beer flavour, just in time to cheers to the end of another season.
Matt Park is the Operations manager at Toronto's Burdock Brewery and he loves yeast. We learn how yeast impacts the taste of beer and how to maintain flavour when brewing low alcohol beers. Yum!
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May 10, 2017 • 35 mins
This week we talk to the son of a farmer about his photographic homage to his upbringing, currently on display at Toronto's St Lawrence Market. Fittingly for one of Canada's oldest farmers' markets, Andrew McGill's work displays scenes from his hometown: farm life, county fairs and local characters.
What happens when you book most of your work in the city, but draw some of your greatest inspiration from your rural farming town? Ho...
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May 3, 2017 • 40 mins
Workplace safety is known as a basic right in our country, however political collective Justice for Migrant Workers is working hard to spread awareness of the realities of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program for some of Canada's migrant farmworker population.
On this week's episode, we speak to one of the J4MW organizers, Tzazná Miranda Leal, about the range of efforts the group has taken to spread the issue of substandard wo...
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April 26, 2017 • 28 mins
How access to food, water and the Internet shapes one northern community; the people of Attawapiskat First Nation cope with the high cost of living on reserve.
We chat with Kathy and Stephen Stoney- a teacher and a minister- about the barriers that currently exist and what they hope to see for the future of eating in their subarctic First Nation.
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April 21, 2017 • 32 mins
When life handed Michaela Kutaj a diagnosis that kept her close to home, she prescribed herself backyard chickens.
This week, Jess takes a trip to the Mississauga to visit a woman who is reaping more than just the obvious- albeit illegal- rewards (i.e. local food, healthy compost, active lifestyle) of backyard chicken farming.
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April 12, 2017 • 37 mins
What is the best way to get more people eating healthy food? We've seen a lot of work in this area, since the advent of the slow food movement, with community gardens popping up in urban settings everywhere.
But what makes someone value locally grown and sourced goods? And how do we take healthy & local foods from being regarded as the exception to being treated as the norm?
This and more with Fresh City Farms' CEO & Founder Ran...
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April 5, 2017 • 60 mins
Discussions of safe space and equal treatment are popping up across an array of industries right now, but identification of the need for safe space is an easy place for the discussion to end.
This week, we talk to a long-time Toronto service industry vet about growing up in restaurants during a rougher time and how this informs the way he runs his establishment today. *Plus* added bonus stories of kitchen stories from 80s & 90s T...
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March 29, 2017 • 38 mins
This week, we talk to a former financial advisor about the decision he made to forget the money and pursue his dream to own his own restaurant. Normally, this would mean forfeiting time with family, but not for Bruce Le.
We head to B's Banh Mi to learn how opening a sandwich shop in the suburbs allows him to express his heritage, his taste and his passion, all the while making it home to spend quality time with his family.
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March 22, 2017 • 59 mins
This week, we talk institutional food. In particular food in hospitals: what are the challenges with feeding people in this setting, how food is viewed by the medical community, how we can introduce healthier foods into this system and what the impact might be.
Lulu Cohen-Farnell and David Farnell, owners of a "healthy catering company for child care centres", regularly speak out about the ways we can better feed vulnerable group...
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March 15, 2017 • 55 mins
In the last few months, it feels like a lot has changed, leaving some of us feeling pretty overwhelmed about the world around us.
We kick off Season 4 by hearing why- and how- one Toronto bartender uses her off time to volunteer. Christina Veira is a long time food & beverage vet, known for making a killer cocktail and also just being really nice (something that is not always said about servers in Toronto). For the last year and...
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January 18, 2017 • 49 mins
2017 marks the 150th Anniversary of Canada. It also happens to be the 75th anniversary of Bryan's grandparents being sent to work on the sugar beet farms of Alberta during the Japanese Internment camps during World War II.
This week, we hear Bryan conversation with his grandparents, Gen & Gene Miki, recorded at their Hamilton home in August 2011.
We're off for a little break, but will be back in February!
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January 11, 2017 • 52 mins
In the last few years, the way we plan to dine out has changed drastically. While technology has improved visibility for restaurants and made connecting with them much easier, their are some negative side effects impacting small business owners who have chosen one of the riskiest businesses out there.
This week we speak with restaurateur, Darcy MacDonell, about what he's doing to improve the situation for all parties involved.
T...
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December 21, 2016 • 49 mins
What goes in to making a cup of coffee? A lot more than the question begs.
Lee Knuttila tells us why he loves coffee and gives us the flavour, history, science and politics inspiring the new era of coffee purveyors.
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December 14, 2016 • 34 mins
How is it that one of the most essential skills for life is so rarely discussed? This week, we chat with a lactation consultant about why first time moms rarely know what it takes to breastfeed their child. And then we get really philosophical about life and the human experience.
T & I: @foodstuffslife
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December 7, 2016 • 25 mins
This week, we get dispatches from the front lines of internet dating: once known as a partier, Dawn Ayre knew it was time to settle down and look for true love, so- naturally- she turned to Tinder. What's it like to start a new chapter, when you've got a reputation for answering late night calls? And how difficult is it to let go of old, often self-destructive, patterns? All that, plus dating advice for the modern era. Hint: It's b...
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November 30, 2016 • 23 mins
Joe Dorgan of Seacow Pond, Prince Edward Island, knew that his cows loved eating local seaweed, but he never thought about why. We talk to the farmer that inspired research that could help save the planet.
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November 23, 2016 • 48 mins
The man at the helm of one of Toronto's most respected restaurant dynasties surprised everyone when he opened a diner in one of the city's low income neighbourhoods early this October.
We chat with Grant van Gameren about the decision to buy Harry's Charbroiled in Parkdale and why it's proven to be one of the most difficult projects he's taken on to date.
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November 16, 2016 • 50 mins
In collaboration with a lab at Trent University, one company is learning to harness DNA sequencing technology for the benefit of us all.
Thanks to Geoff Lumby, President of Sterisense (http://www.sterisense.com/), for speaking with us.
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November 10, 2016 • 40 mins
This week, we speak with a fish farmer who has a lot to say about how the public views his industry. What do you do when your country chooses a stance on your livelihood and doesn't question it?
Thanks to Gord Cole of Aquacage Fisheries in Parry Sound, ON for appearing on the show.
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November 2, 2016 • 44 mins
Foodstuffs is back for Season 3!
This season, we're bringing you a brand new interview every week. We're excited, because this lets us be with you more often and go deeper on the topics we share with you.
For our first interview of the season, we go to Royale's Luncheonette on Dundas West in Toronto to speak with a 20 year kitchen vet about why he left a life of late nights behind and what greater balance is worth in this indus...
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