This kitchens episode focuses on the ways in which our cooking spaces enable connection making, both among friends and family as well as within our inner selves and the world of imagination and poetry. Kitchen constructor Hubert Taschereau gives insights into spatial design, while literature scholar Alexia Moyer shares the ways that authors evoke character and place with references to kitchens. David and Maxime get a little spicy during ‘Stick This in Your Mouth’, and designer and artist Dawn Lee responds to the Food Questionnaire.

Guests:

Hubert Taschereau is the founder and former owner of Gepetto, a kitchen design, fabrication, and installation company. He has two kids, with whom he spends a good deal of time in his self-designed kitchen in Montreal.

Dr. Alexia Moyer runs an editorial collective called redline-lignerouge, manages a journal called Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, and spends much of her free time trying to devise ways of getting her kids to eat mushrooms and parsnips. During the podcast, she referred to the following texts:

- Diamond Grill by Fred Wah

- Canadian Literary Fare edited by Nathalie Cooke & Shelley Boyd

- The Canlit Food Book edited by Margaret Atwood

- Kitchen Talk edited by Edna Alford & Claire Harris

- The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard & Pierre Mayol

- Kitchen Stories directed by Bent Hamer

Dawn Lee is an artist and designer at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto. She has been delighting museum-goers for nearly 40 years with her work creating interactive exhibits and spaces that invite learning, discovery, and reflection.

Host/Producer: David Szanto Music: Story Mode

additional music: Aya Higuchi via Musopen

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