Deconstructing Dinner Podcast
1) Exploring Ethnobiology I: Preserving Traditional Foodways Among Indigenous Youth
As people throughout the Western world are increasingly seeking to reconnect with their food, there's a lot to be learned from the many peoples who have long maintained these dynamic relationships bet...Show More
2) 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 â a festival for garlic! When looking at a map of where garlic festivals are emerging, itâs clear that garlic...Show More
3) Genetically Engineered Honey?
Honey â one of the most natural foods. In the supermarket, honey is found labelled as coming from clover, buckwheat, alfalfa or maybe orange blossom. The label might just read âhoneyâ without any indi...Show More
4) 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 research group based in Wisconsin. Mark and Jon discuss the changi...Show More
5) 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 Canada's most recognized food policy analysts offers his perspe...Show More
6) Conventional vs. Organic Wheat
On this all-new podcast, Deconstructing Dinner's Jon Steinman examines some of the key differences between conventional and organically produced wheat. Features: Stephen Jones, Director, Washington S...Show More
7) 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 speaks about the need to step away from producing new shows a...Show More
8) 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 interior of British Columbia. The project is Canada's first c...Show More
9) 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 the relationships between humans and their surrounding plants,...Show More
10) 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 devoted to what they call - "Ideas Worth Spreading." Starting o...Show More