The Importance of Garlic to Small-Scale Farmers
Across the US and Canada, there is an exciting emergence of a unique type of food festival – a festival for garlic! When looking at a map of...
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Deconstructing Dinner
Deconstructing Dinner: Reconstructing Our Food System is the next incarnation of the popular internationally syndicated radio show Deconstructing Dinner (2006-2010). A collection of new podc...
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Genetically Engineered Honey?
Honey – one of the most natural foods. In the supermarket, honey is found labelled as coming from clover, buckwheat, alfalfa or maybe orange...
How Organic is an 'Organic' Egg?
Deconstructing Dinner's Jon Steinman sits down with Mark Kastel - the co-founder of the Cornucopia Institute - a populist farm policy resear...
Year-Round vs. Seasonal Eating
It's not uncommon for most of us eaters to view the system supplying us with food as being separate from us, but on this podcast, one of Can...
Conventional vs. Organic Wheat
On this all-new podcast, Deconstructing Dinner's Jon Steinman examines some of the key differences between conventional and organically prod...
A Farewell... For Now! (incl. Update on Eggs Investigation)
This episode #193 marks the final broadcast of Deconstructing Dinner before we embark on a much-needed break. Producer & Host Jon Steinman s...
The Local Grain Revolution XII (Year 3 & Lopez Island Grain Project)
Since March 2008, Deconstructing Dinner has been tracking the evolution of the Kootenay Grain CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in the i...
Exploring Ethnobiology IV (The Immaterial Components of Food Sovereignty / Comparing 17th/18th Century Cereal Grain Productivity Among Iroquois and Europeans)
Exploring Ethnobiology is a new series Deconstructing Dinner has been airing since June. Through a scientific lens, ethnobiology examines th...
TED Talks on Food w/Jamie Oliver, Carolyn Steel & Christien Meindertsma
TED has become an incredibly popular series of conferences featuring inspiring speakers from around the world. TED is a small non-profit dev...
Produce to the People
Deconstructing Dinner has long been exploring the many ways through which farmers, businesses, organizations and communities are accessing f...
Packaged Foods Exposed V (Unilever 3 Years Later) / Unequal Harvest
Packaged Foods Exposed V Deconstructing Dinner revisits with our popular series - Packaged Foods Exposed. Launched in 2006, the series exami...
Exploring Ethnobiology III / Investigating Eggs Update
Exploring Ethnobiology III In May 2010, Deconstructing Dinner travelled to Vancouver Island where two international conferences on ethnobiol...
Local Food Fraud?: An Investigation
An exclusive behind-the-scenes investigative report taking an in-depth look into alleged local food fraud. With the rapid rise in interest a...
Climate Friendly Eating (Conscientious Cooks VIII)
On this part 8 of our Conscientious Cooks series , we listen in on a really interesting panel discussion hosted in 2008 by the Center for Ur...
The Future of Prison Farms V: Abducted Cows
Having now devoted four episodes to covering the closure of Canada's prison farms, this Part 5 of our coverage might mark a disappointing ch...
The Erosion of Civilizations (w/David Montgomery & Ronald Wright)
Deconstructing Dinner has recently been reflecting on the model of agriculture itself as the primary source through which most people on ear...
Exploring Ethnobiology II: Nancy Turner
In May 2010, Deconstructing Dinner travelled to Vancouver Island where two international conferences on ethnobiology were being hosted. Ethn...
Are Agricultural Systems Sustainable? (Toby Hemenway on Permaculture)
Much of the content of Deconstructing Dinner revolves primarily around the practice of agriculture; from examining the downsides and challen...
Fermenting Revolution / Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools II (revisited)
Fermenting Revolution (First aired July 19, 2007) For many people, it would be quite welcoming advice to learn that drinking beer could save...
Vancouver's Backyard Chickens II / Bucky Buckaw
The second of a two-part feature on the City of Vancouver's multi-year process to approve backyard chickens. Because of the many similar deb...