A penchant for cooking and love of the sciences led Michele Todd to a career in Food Science. As a Senior Food Scientist at Riverside Natural Foods, Michele tracks and optimizes every data point behind the delicious snacks of brands like Made Good, Good to Go, and for the pet lovers, Cookie Pal! She tells us about a typical day in the lab and how to turn your Nona's special sauce into an international best seller!

After the birth of her daughter, Mary Smith figured her declining health was just postpartum "mom life." She spent four years navigating the healthcare system and was finally diagnosed with celiac disease at the age of 32. Mary documented her journey to better health through food on her blog "Mary's Whole Life," where you can find delicious gluten-free, Paleo, and Whole30 recipes.

Food writer, Hannah Sunderani, returns to tell us about her latest venture! The Two Spoons Cookbook is an anthology of adapted French classics that she compiled while living abroad for a growing plant based audience.

Renowned pastry chef and master chocolatier, Steve Hodge drops by to fill us in on season two of his show "Project Bakeover". Plus, we hear about his shop Temper Bakery and how the pandemic led to scientifically superior croissants!

Our friend, author and professional home economist Mairlyn Smith, returns to the show. She tells us about the morning tea ritual she started as an excuse to break out her good china and spread some positivity. And, with buds nearing blossom, we chat about spring garden prep and Mairlyn's herbaceous plans for the claw foot bath in her new fairy garden.

Daphne Oz is an Emmy award winning TV host and New York Times bestselling author. She says people need to get more than they're giving up for positive changes to really stick. So, Daphne wrote her new cookbook "Eat Your Heart Out" to be a reset for people who love to eat, with tons of simple yet luxurious recipes and indulgent healthy foods.

Julia Cho is the Content and Marketing Manager at Purdy's Chocolatier. Recently, the confectioners collaborated with blind and partially sighted chocolate lovers to make the Braille Box; a more inclusive sweet tooth experience. Julia tells us what they learned as a brand by getting to know their customers a little better.

Ten years ago Stuart Sutton bought a wooded acreage just outside of Newmarket, Ontario; his family named it Serendipity Forest. The property, thick with sugar maples, came with all the trees and taps Stuart needed to start making maple syrup. Now, for a few weeks every year when the temperature flirts between freezing and melting, he rallies a crowd to collect and boil sweet sap in the sugar shack. Stuart tells us all about the making of Canada's iconic condiment.

In this special episode, we hear the origin story of Kitchen Confession host, Mary Mammoliti! She relates how she learned to cope with degenerative vision loss, detached from anxiety by practising cognitive behavioural therapy, and how her kitchen helped bolster a joyful and empowered new outlook.

With restaurants open and closed and travel off the table, new experiences are hard to come by, but Mary says a return to comforting classics is her cure for dried-out creativity. Show producers Mary and Matt catch up on a winter's worth of their culinary exploits, plus lessons learned from over 100 episodes of Kitchen Confession!