Let’s Taste Canada

Jill and Rachel speak to their community experience to work together on food. It was a huge privilege to listen to both of them! Here is Part 1. 

This podcast not for little ears and please note the privilege of listening to the courage of someone's story - if you are navigating a relationship with food - it may be challenging to hear - however the majority is about positive relationships to food, enjoying cooking and a few different appraoches including recognizing our biases. Please see the blog for more. Thank you!

Please check out www.letstastecanada.ca/podcast for the latest posts. Typically the blog will be released soon after and often has the the blog embedded as well.

Please check out www.letstastecanada.ca for the most recent blog and also can listen via the site as well.

https://foodforallnb.ca/about/vision-and-mission 

Hello - please see a mini introduction mostly on clinical practical advice and the challenge of overcoming my extreme privacy wishes in releasing the podcasts - the other discussion. As well as to consider some questions. Also yes - I eat doughnuts. 

Mostly life has humbled me over and over so these podcasts are an offering - there is always more to learn - the point was to learn as well (watch this shift...). Thankfully these are some of the top people in Canada who have something to say.

There is also more importantly the community aspect and cultural component I wanted to include properly - recognizing the land which supported this journey. I have mostly lived worked and played on the sacred land of the Coast Salish peoples, and currently live on the unceded shared territory of the Sumas First Nation and Matsqui First Nation, who are part of the Stό:lō people.

There are two other much longer introductions about the community aspect and larger picture as well as my opinions on food and food security - which will come. Please do share as you wish if you find it helpful and please know that the incredible generosity of people sharing their experiences was so appreciated - as I was learning I hope you will learn too. 

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In my work as a dietitian – I’ve noticed a lot of fear of food. It’s one of the reasons I wanted to do this trip – to remind people – and myself- that food is beautiful, amazing and can be celebrated. What blew me away – is how incredibly kind, resilient and thoughtful we are. There are so many beautiful people in this world living their BEST life, wanting the best for everyone – for you. I was comforted with the kindness I saw and the desire to make the world a BETTER place – with food at the centre, or at least a starting place. We do make a difference when we care. I love the fact that food is one of the few unifying factors that connects us all as human beings – and well technically for any living being. We all eat. We all have a strong food memory. But perhaps food can be a place where we can start talking about how we can live our best lives – even if food isn’t your thing – I hope we all can care about something as passionately as I care about you and food.

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I am so excited to learn from you, from the food stories again, and from seeing these incredible food stories through your eyes. I hope we can continue to connect with our Let’s Taste Canada podcast and I would love to hear any thoughts, comments, questions, through the Let’s Taste Canada blog and Instagram. I invite you to as yourself throughout the podcasts: How would I answer this question? What would it be like to have had that experience shape my way of thinking about food? How do I think about food? How do I think about how our relationship to food relates to how I choose to live my life? How does Canada relate to food and the food system?

Happy Tasting and lots of love 

Please listen in to Max (and Alex podcast to find out a bit more) 

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Please see Letstastecanada.ca for the blog release with a bit more about Mike. This is Part 2 so please listen in to Part 1 https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-8b9pj-1ab8053 if you wish first. 

This podcast explains a bit more about food and drink philosophy. Hope you enjoy! 

Irena

Please listen in to Mike's podcast to find out a bit more. There is a second portion next week!

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Speaks to her interests in advocacy, that she enjoys cooking and a large network of people hoping for a new vision for Canada. The podcast completes many concepts including how to create events that are very inclusive, how to eat, speaking to hunger as part of food insecurity, health care costs being high for food insecure individuals.

Note there are time specific notes here which were not as related currently. 

At the time of the interview, Matthew Bouchard was the executive director at The Yellow Door/La Porte Jaune. Growing up in Montreal with parents of different strong nationalities affected his approach to food. 

Please do take a look at the https://www.letstastecanada.ca/matthew-bouchard-yellow-door/

Thank you for listening!

If you are interested in a short and fun podcast - before we had to move due to the massive thunderstorm please take a listen.

Max is very pleased to be an oyster farmer. After some hilarity and much laughter throughout the interview - I appreciated how excited he became about food.

Play the podcast on any platform or listen direct on the site https://www.letstastecanada.ca/max-oyster-farmer/ 

Alex speaks about his interest in food as a chef, his work, and how he cares about his herb garden, – I appreciated his interview immensely so I hope you enjoy and appreciate a very real conversation with an exceptionally talented chef. More of how real the conversation was so appreciated – I chose to leave it almost all in - so I hope this interview showcases his experience properly! It was a lot of fun to speak to Alex and I hope you enjoy it.

Be sure to look at the site as well - www.letstastecanada.ca

Take a look at the site, the property has an appreciation for art – food – and supports applications for arts as well - I personally have a huge appreciation for the arts – always have – learn about it all here at https://kingsbraegarden.com/about/art-at-kingsbrae/.

https://www.acadian-sturgeon.com/our-story/

Cornel is extremely well educated with his PhD, he is very well spoken at a fast pace! I loved how he spoke off the cuff, and very intelligently. Which was a delight. He speaks about upbringing on the countryside in Romania – proudly - and learning from his family and an important relationship with his professor who was 80 when he started his PhD! Take a look at his website for more about the company.

Take a look at www.letstastecanada.ca for the next post.