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The Kitchen Stories

by The Jewish Museum and Archives of BC

Exploring the links between food, community, and heritage with the Jewish Museum and Archives of BC

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Episodes

  1. Ep.11 Secret Family Recipes

    In this episode, the last one in Season 2 (the dessert episode, you might say), join me (Liana) as I try to get to the bottom of the mysteries behind my family's secret chocolate chip cookie recipe.

  2. Ep.10 Feeding the Future

    Many Jewish institutions are facing a decline in young adult engagement compared to that of older generations. Could food and land-based programming be the solution? Hear from returning and new guests about how they get young people through the door (virtually and irl), and how previously...

  3. Ep.9 Kat Romanow & the Wandering Chew

    Jewish food historian Kat Romanow talks about the Wandering Chew, converting to Judaism, which Montreal bagel is best, and much more!

  4. Ep.8 Queering Jewish Spaces (With Food!)

    What's the recipe for accessible, LGBTQ+, Jewish spaces? Carmel Tanaka from JQT Vancouver and Joe Isaac and L.M Jones from the Pink Peacock fill us in on the key ingredients, from community bridges made of rainbow challah to Yiddish Anarchist knishes.

  5. Ep.7 Food Security Part 3: Welcome to the Food Hub

    The third and final part in this season's series on food security is all about Jewish Family Services of Vancouver's new food hub! What's a food hub? How's it different from a food bank? Where did JFS get the idea? All these questions and more are answered in today's episode as we learn about…

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  6. Ep.6 Food Security Part 2: A Human Voice

    In this episode, Part 2/3 on food security, hear from two clients of Jewish Family Services about their lived experiences of food insecurity, from the circumstances that brought them to rely on the food bank to how we can provide support as a community. Please note that this episode includes...

  7. Ep.5 Food Security Part 1: More Than a Bag of Food

    Food security is so much more than just receiving a bag of food. Part 1 of this season's series on food security is made up of highlights from a panel discussion hosted by Congregation Beth Israel and Jewish Family Services of Vancouver back in January. The panelists provide a big picture...

  8. Ep.4 Of Every Tree of the Garden

    Today's menu-- I mean episode-- is entirely plant-based! Listen to our guests reflect on their vegan journeys, adapting traditional Jewish foods to a plant-based diet, and the relationship between veganism and Judaism.

  9. Ep.3 Keeping BC Kosher Across Time and Space

    Travel through time and across British Columbia in this episode, as we delve into the history of keeping kosher in BC, learn about the first kosher food importing business in Vancouver, and hear from some of the people working hard to supply Jews in smaller communities with kosher products today....

  10. Ep.2 Shiva Delivers

    How can we draw inspiration from Jewish traditions to show up for others? In this episode, Madison Slobin and Becca Schwenk tell us about Shiva Delivers, an initiative they organized in the Spring of 2020 where Jewish community members prepared meals in an effort to stand in solidarity with the...

  11. Ep.1 The Joy of Hosting

    Whether we're gathering in person or virtually, a good host makes a world of difference. But what does the host get out of the experience? In this first episode of Season 2, we hear about food-centred gathering traditions and what their hosts love about them, and then we call call up an expert to...

  12. Season 2 Trailer

    The Kitchen Stories Season 2 arrives March 4, 2020. Here's a taste of what you can look forward to with our new host, Liana Glass!

  13. Ep. 13 Food Security (Part 3)

    In this final episode of our series, we apply the ideas from the past two episodes on Food Security into practice by speaking with community members actively engaged in alternative movements that affect change in our local community. These voices come together to show Vancouver’s strength as a…

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  14. Ep.12 Food Security (Part 2)

    Continuing on from our last episode, we learn about work happening in food security through the lenses of plant genetics, dialogue, and race.

  15. Ep. 11 Food Security (Part 1)

    How has the Jewish community organized around the issue of food security? What do Jewish ethics teach us about hunger and justice? We begin to unpack these questions in this, the first of a three-part series.

  16. Ep. 10 The Chosen Food

    Sit in on an evening of our supper club series, The Chosen Food.

  17. Ep. 9 A Love Letter to Vancouver

    We asked some of our guests what they miss about where they've come from and what they love about the place they've come to call home.

  18. Ep. 8 The Summer Special

    A small taste of the many topics we're working on for future episodes.

  19. Ep. 7 Food and Gender; A Spaghetti Junction

    What is the relationship between food and gender? What are the expectations, the assumptions, the defiances? How have these changed over time?

  20. Ep.6 Fresh Roots

    Three young people employ food as a means of determining and expressing who they are.

  21. Ep.5 The Business of Food

    The flavours that connect you to your past are often the ingredients that make you who you are.

  22. Ep.4 Faraway Foods (Part 2)

    Today we continue our tour of global Jewish culinary traditions with stories from three African expats.

  23. Ep.3 Faraway Foods (Part 1)

    On today's episode we hear of Jewish life and culinary traditions brought to Vancouver from Bangalore and Shanghai.

  24. Ep.2 The Networks of Food

    This week we learn about the ways agriculture informs Jewish tradition, and much more.

  25. Ep. 1 Food and Memory

    Exploring the links between food, community, and heritage with the Jewish Museum and Archives of BC.

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Exploring the links between food, community, and heritage with the Jewish Museum and Archives of BC

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Exploring the links between food, community, and heritage with the Jewish Museum and Archives of BC

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