AnthroDish Podcast
1) 11: Shailee Koranne on Racial Food Stereotypes, Cultural Identity, and David Chang's "Ugly Delicious"
This week on AnthroDish, I am interviewing freelancer writer and journalist, Shailee Koranne. Based out of Toronto, ON, she writes about pop culture, bodies, cultural production, politics, and identit...Show More
2) 153: Setting a Place for Recipes of Displacement & Community with Hawa Hassan
As season 9 of the podcast draws to a close, it’s feeling like a full circle moment thematically. The conversations began this season around what it means to value labour, specifically whose labour is...Show More
3) 152: Documenting the Undocumented through Food with Jill Damatac
The idea of a pristine kitchen with clean countertops feels distinctively American, or an all-American idealist. However, the concept of the American ideal, or the American dream, desperately needs to...Show More
4) 151: What Can Local and Seasonal Food Networks Look Like? with Colin Fontaine
Perhaps now more than ever, there’s renewed appreciation for the intricacies of our food systems' deep dependence on a global supply chain. However, that also raises challenges around our relationship...Show More
5) 150: Italian Pasta Nights with an American Accent with Renato Poliafito
Throughout this season, we’ve been exploring immigrant narratives around food: roles in food systems, labour, and diasporic food stories. Part of this is making sense of the “ish” elements to identiti...Show More
6) 149: Unbottling the Problems of Bottled Water with Daniel Jaffee
A plastic bottle of water powerfully represents the state of our current environmental and health priorities. That water can become commodified while being an essential public service means that who g...Show More
7) 148: Masala, Maíz, and Movement - Ingredients for Decolonizing Plates with Norma Listman and Saqib Keval
On the show today are Norma Listman and Saqib Keval, looking at the solutions and communities that can be built when activism and ethical values are at the forefront of food creation. Norma and Saqib ...Show More
8) 147: What Canada Ate - The Role of Cookbooks in Culinary History with Dr. Rebecca Beausaert
As most historians will tell you, the past can help make sense of a lot of the present, but maybe in unexpected or novel ways—like through cookbooks! We’re living in an intense period (I probably alwa...Show More
9) 146: Flavour's Role in Food System Fixes with Franco Fubini
The idea of industrial food systems is flat, heavy, and feels complex to access. It brings up connotations of very bland, hyper-processed foods made to reach a large number of people at a low cost. Th...Show More
10) 145: Exploring the Biodiversity of Climate-Smart Crops with Shreema Mehta
Industrial food systems tend to use mono-crop and unilinear approaches to supplying the Global North with food. But what happens when we consider more diverse crops? My guest today, Shreema Mehta, wil...Show More