Podcasts – Deconstructing Dinner

Across the US and Canada, there is an exciting emergence of a unique type of food festival – a festival for garlic! Why is this occurring and what can we learn about the role of garlic for small-scale farmers? The post Importance of Garlic to Small-Scale Farmers appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

It turns out, in Canada, 80% of all the honey produced in the country is from the nectar of canola – yet, nowhere on the grocery store shelves do we ever see honey labelled as “canola honey”. The post Genetically Engineered Honey? appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

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 changing face of organic food. Using eggs as an example – Mark explains how eaters can exercise a more discriminating awareness when purchasing ‘organic’… The post How Organic is an Organic Egg? appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

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 perspectives which suggest otherwise. Instead, the food system has in many ways been designed to satisfy the demands that we… The post Year-Round vs. Seasonal Eating appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

On this all-new podcast, Deconstructing Dinner’s Jon Steinman examines some of the key differences between conventional and organically produced wheat. (Runtime: 28 min) Features: Stephen Jones, Director, Washington State University Research Station (Mount Vernon, WA) Kevin Christenson, Owner, Fairhaven Organic Flour Mill (Burlington, WA) Sam Lucy, Farmer, Bluebird Grain Farms (Winthrop, WA) Roy Lawrence, Farmer,… The post Conventional vs. Organic Wheat appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

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 and what future might lie ahead. Jon also shares some reflections on the past 5 years of producing this weekly one-hour radio… The post A Farewell… For Now!” (incl. Update on Eggs Investigation) appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

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 CSA for grain and it’s been quite a while since we’ve checked in with how it’s evolved in its third year. Also on this part 12 of the… The post The Local Grain Revolution XII (Year 3 & Lopez Island Grain Project) appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

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, animals and ecosystems. With more and more people becoming interested in developing closer relationships with our surroundings (our food, the earth), there’s much we can all learn from… The post Exploring Ethnobiology IV (The Immaterial Components of Food Sovereignty / Comparing 17th/18th Century Cereal Grain Productivity Among Iroquois and Europeans) appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

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 out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment & Design, TED has since broadened its scope to include… The post TED Talks on Food w/Jamie Oliver, Carolyn Steel & Christien Meindertsma appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.

Deconstructing Dinner has long been exploring the many ways through which farmers, businesses, organizations and communities are accessing food using new and innovative models. On today’s broadcast we hear more of those examples shared as part of the March 2010 panel – Produce to the People, hosted by the San Francisco based CUESA. The Produce… The post Produce to the People appeared first on Deconstructing Dinner.