Mike Greenburg made a big decision during the pandemic. He left his chef job at a trendy downtown Toronto restaurant, and went from nine tables to now making more than 5000 meals weekly at the Daily Bread Food Bank’s industrial kitchen. Here, leaning on his grandma’s Emergency Soup recipe, he’s tackling a large and growing crisis in Canada - food insecurity ..read more

One hundred years of colonization, the outlawing of traditional harvesting methods, a global pandemic and the death of Kenton Snache - the man who gave us the fish cake recipe back in 2019. In this conclusion of Kory's story, we are back in Rama First Nation with Kory at his dad’s old house. And we finally make his dad’s famous fish cakes together ..read more

For almost 100 years, the Chippewas of Rama were legally forbidden to fish, hunt and harvest on their traditional territories. For Kory Snache, learning to fish was a nighttime clandestine activity under constant police threat. With the Williams Treaties resettled now, Kory takes us spearfishing showing how his community held on to the vital ingredients needed to make his dad’s fish cakes.   ..read more

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When Ivy’s grandma died, the chef and food writer decided it was high time to finally learn how to make grandma Marthe’s famous tourtière recipe from the Gaspésie. Ivy visits her aunt Jeannine’s kitchen - a world apart from her mother’s hippie homestead kitchen in PEI - to discover her French-Canadian roots.  ..read more

A new show about family recipes and why they get passed on. Join host Sarah Martin as she takes us inside family kitchens to cook cherished recipes. Every episode contains three vital ingredients: a great yarn around a family recipe, delicious food and terrific characters. Visit homecookedpodcast.com for recipes, photos and videos ..read more

Bernadette has a mission: To pass on her Inuit ancestors’ skills in finding and cooking food — in a harsh Arctic environment where harvesting has a whole new meaning, and survival means sharing everything.  On the edge of the Arctic Circle, Bernadette and her old friend Christopher take Sarah out onto the Arctic sea ice to hunt and harvest a whole caribou ..read more

At school, Nick was embarrassed by the smell of the Chinese food his parents packed him for lunch. When he decided to become a chef, he perfected French techniques under some of the top chefs in North America and Europe. Returning home, it was his grandmother’s wontons that gave him a jolt of sensory memory that would define his current success. homecookedpodcast.com for recipes, photos and videos. Photography: Christopher Wahl Illustrations: Charlotte Ficek ..read more

For José’s tightly-knit family, meals have always been an important time to be together — over a Colombian diet of meat, meat and more meat. At university, José learned to see some things differently and decided to become a vegan. But he can’t give up his seat at the family table, and his mom would never let that happen. homecookedpodcast.com for recipes, photos and videos.  ..read more

Karl fed his Jamaican chopped liver to his boys for breakfast, to fuel them for hockey practice. It worked: P.K. is an all-star defenceman in Nashville and Malcolm tends goal for Las Vegas. When the youngest, Jordan, followed his older brothers footsteps of playing in the NHL, it was the liver that kept him company on the road.  Homecookedpodcast.com for recipes, photos and videos.  ..read more