Podcasts from 2007 (Page 5)

Thought for Food – Alternatives Journal

In a recent issue of the highly-respected Alternatives Journal, the subject of food, filled the pages within. Titled “Thought for Food”, the edition connected a new generation of food activists to a classic member of Canada’s food heritage. It honours the People’s Food Commission that, in the late 1970s, traveled across the country to hear the views…

100-Mile Diet / Local Food Strategies

When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles. On the first day of spring, 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon chose to confront this unsettling statistic with a simple experiment. For one year, they would buy or gather their food and drink from within 100 miles of their apartment…

Best of Deconstructing Dinner Jun-Nov ’06

Launching the second season of Deconstructing Dinner, this broadcast explores the highlights from all shows aired between June and November of 2006. Show segments have been orchestrated alongside a soundtrack courtesy of Six Degrees Records. Broadcasts of Deconstructing Dinner can be listened to in their entirety, by browsing the “recent” section of the program’s web site.…