Deconstructing Dinner was a popular internationally-syndicated radio show/podcast airing on 50 radio stations throughout Canada and the United States (2006-2010). Hosted by Jon Steinman, the show was produced at Kootenay Co-op Radio CJLY in Nelson, British Columbia. A total of 193 episodes featured some of the most recognized names in the ‘good food’ movement. Five more episodes were produced in 2014 as part of the Deconstructing Dinner: Reconstructing Our Food System television/web series.
Jon Steinman was nominated for a Jack Webster Award in 2011 for the Deconstructing Dinner story, Local Food Fraud?: An Investigation.
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Packaged Foods Exposed V Deconstructing Dinner revisits with our popular series – Packaged Foods Exposed. Launched in 2006, the series examines the largest manufacturers of processed foods in the country and takes an often overlooked and critical perspective of these powerful companies. When Deconstructing Dinner last aired this series, we featured a two-part exposé of…
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) (Winnipeg, MB) – The CFIA is the arm of Health Canada in charge of safeguarding food, animals and plants. Links to Explore International Society of Ethnobiology Society of Ethnobiology Additional Reading Tending the meadows of the sea: Traditional Kwakwaka’wakw harvesting of Ts’áts’ayem (Cullis-Suzuki) T’aanuu Telegram – A Newsletter about Eelgrass…
Nominated for a 2011 Jack Webster Award – this exclusive behind-the-scenes investigative report takes an in-depth look into alleged local food fraud. With the rapid rise in interest among North Americans to support locally produced food and with the premium people are willing to pay for that food, it leaves open an attractive opportunity for…
On this part 8 of our Conscientious Cooks series, we listen in on a panel discussion hosted in 2008 by the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (or CUESA) located in San Francisco, California. The panel was themed around the concept of Climate Friendly Eating. Voices Gail Feenstra, food systems analyst, University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education…
Having now devoted four episodes to covering the closure of Canada’s prison farms, this Part 5 of our coverage might mark a disappointing chapter for Canadians who have been hoping for a halt to the closures. While all six of these rehabilitative and job-training programs have been progressively dismantled over the past year, the August 9…
Deconstructing Dinner has recently been reflecting on the model of agriculture itself as the primary source through which most people on earth access their food. From our exploration of ethnobiology to recent topics on permaculture, it’s clear that there are other models available, which, for some people are a substitute for agriculture, and for others,…
In May 2010, Deconstructing Dinner travelled to Vancouver Island where two international conferences on ethnobiology were being hosted. Ethnobiology examines the relationships between humans and their surrounding plants, animals and ecosystems. Today, more and more people are expressing an interest to develop closer relationships with the earth. This leaves much to be learned from the…
Much of the content of Deconstructing Dinner revolves primarily around the practice of agriculture; from examining the challenges of current agricultural systems to the opportunities found in alternatives. However, most of the alternatives we examine are also ‘agri’cultural and so from time to time it’s important to step back and deconstruct that very focus… asking the…
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 debates underway within city councils across the country, this focus on Vancouver’s efforts looks back over the past few years to track just how this process first began and how it evolved from…
Margaret Atwood Joins Prison Farms Campaign As part of our ongoing coverage on the future of Canada’s prison farms, we check in on the campaign where well-known Canadian author Margaret Atwood has now joined the fight. We’ll listen in on the June 6 rally in Kingston, Ontario and the subsequent rally in Ottawa one week…