Best Immigrant Cuisine Podcasts (2024)

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131: Season 9 Launch [Solo Episode] 7:32

3d ago7:32

7:32

As we start up season 9 of the podcast, I wanted to share some life and technological updates, as well as what you can expect of this season. Food feels very different from when I started this show in 2018, the "foodie" culture isn't proliferating, which isn't a shock given the challenges of food and living costs in North America. This season we're…

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130: Invisible Labour Behind Chicken Nuggets: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Industry with Alice Driver 30:20

10d ago30:20

30:20

We’ve heard stories about how chicken nuggets are riddled with questionable ingredients, but what gets missed when looking at industrial meat production is those who process a nation’s worth of meat and poultry, the immigrants working at Tyson meatpacking companies throughout Arkansas. My guest today is Alice Driver, who has written a haunting expo…

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129: Third Culture Cooking, TikTok Foods, and Kung Food Cookbook with Jon Kung 34:49

4M ago34:49

34:49

For our last episode this season, we’re exploring what it means to cook from a third culture kitchen. There’s been growing discussions online of what it means to be a third culture kid or a third culture individual. My guest today, Jon Kung, is one of the best people to speak to how third culture experiences can play out through food, cooking, and …

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128: Heydays at the June Motel - Translating a Lakeside Summer Cuisine into a Cookbook with Katie Laliberté 36:05

4M ago36:05

36:05

Here in Ontario, we’re just hitting the warmer spring weather after a grey and cloudy winter, and anyone living up north can attest to the amount of daydreaming we do about our future and past summer plans. During that daydreaming, memory and nostalgia can play a significant role in establishing an ideal summer, with tastes, scents and flavour play…

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#123 High Cuisine and Redefining Cannabis Culture with Nicole DiMascio 47:40

5M ago47:40

47:40

Explore the kitchen and beyond with Nicole DiMascio, the creative force behind "Dope Kitchen." As a weed enthusiast and content creator, Nicole is redefining the cannabis culture by challenging the old stoner stereotypes with her dynamic blend of mindful cannabis use, healthy cooking, and active living. Nicole opens up about her journey from viral …

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127: How Local Journalism Explores the Foods of the American South with Hanna Raskin of The Food Section 27:27

5M ago27:27

27:27

News media at large is in a challenging position this year: we’ve seen mass layoffs across digital media, local news, TV, print, even podcasts and documentaries. There’s shifts in audiences, loss of journalist jobs, and shaky foundations of social media platforms like Twitter and Substack that make even the strongest bylines at risk of being swallo…

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126: The Ikaria Way: How Mostly Plant-Based Foods Maintain a Greek Island's Longevity with Diane Kochilas 38:17

5M ago38:17

38:17

You may be familiar with the Greek island of Ikaria through the popularity of “Blue Zones” and the idea that these regions of the world can provide insights into living longer, healthier lives. Yet as with most trends around diet and health, there is so much unspoken about the nuances of what an Ikarian lifestyle and diet entails, and the cultural …

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125: Sesame, Soy, Spice: Using Plant-Based Recipes to Honour Heritage and Healing with Remy Morimoto Park 36:05

6M ago36:05

36:05

Thinking about “typical” types of veganism can reveal a lot of fascinating Western stereotypes or biases around what it does and doesn’t entail. And yet so many cultural cuisines from around the world are rooted in plant-based meals that have been passed down through generations to shape contemporary ethnic cuisines. So what happens when someone ad…

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124: How Microgreens Weave Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science for Food Futures with Natalie Paterson 47:20

6M ago47:20

47:20

One of the pitfalls in sustainability movements is this assumption that we’re all working from an equal playing field, when the reality is that oftentimes we don’t have the home space or the time to grow our own food. What we don’t always ask is whether we can make the comproimses that allow us to meet those desires to grow our own food without the…

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#122 MUD\WTR's Shane Heath: Fueling a Business and Personal Evolution Through Art, Adaptogens and Action 56:39

6M ago56:39

56:39

Long before Shane Heath became the founder and CEO of MUD\WTR, he was already on a mission to create healthy minds through healthy habits. Battling depression and anxiety from a young age, Heath traveled both the world and his own interior landscape to shift and evolve his perspective continually. He’s turned his personal journey into a company tha…

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123: The Power of Showcasing Immigrant Restaurant Stories with Maggie Leandre of CharisMaggieTV 37:37

6M ago37:37

37:37

If you’ve been a regular listener to this podcast, you know that food is central to all of our discussions around identity, culture, belonging, and sense of place. My guest today is someone who excels at bringing these relationships to life through her YouTube channel, and speaks to the layers of personal experience she has had growing up and livin…

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122: Celebrating the Diversity of Torontonian Food through The Depanneur Cookbook with Len Senater 43:47

6M ago43:47

43:47

When I think of a quintessentially Torontonian food experience, I tend to think of The Depanneur. Founded in 2011, The Depanneur was a tiny old corner store that transformed into a place where interesting food things happen, featuring hundreds of talented cooks and home chefs serving thousands of eclectic meals through unique Drop-In Dinners, cooki…

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121: Exploring the Relationship between Fish Hacks, Porgy, and Black Maritime Culture with Dr. Jayson M. Porter 32:24

7M ago32:24

32:24

Anytime I get to talk about water and seafood on this show feels like a really special week for me, as I have spent most of my life thinking about how we connect with or form relationships around water. My guest, Dr. Jayson M. Porter, this week takes a really nuanced approach to this through a recent article he wrote called Fish Hacks for Distillat…

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120: Making Sense of Misunderstood Vegetables through Humour and Celebration with Becky Selengut 40:01

7M ago40:01

40:01

Often when we make our grocery runs, time and money are on our mind – which can quickly lead to following a stringent list of household classics and crowd pleasers. But sometimes, in the corner of your eye, you might catch a new to you vegetable and wonder what the heck it is, or how it works. My guest today, Becky Selengut, is here to provide know…

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#121 Embracing Vulnerability for True Intimacy with Kiana Reeves 46:52

7M ago46:52

46:52

Navigating authentic intimate relationships can have us twisting ourselves into emotional states that would make the Kama Sutra blush. Yet doing the work of self-reflection while being open to change can create profound connections, both with ourselves and others. By embracing our vulnerability and maintaining open communication, we can enrich our …

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119: Destigmatizing Harm Reduction, Mental Health, and Drug Use in Alberta with Danielle English 54:08

7M ago54:08

54:08

We’ve spoken a bit this season about the drug poisoning crisis and how breweries can work to support their neighbours using substances, but with this affecting so many across Canada, but I wanted to come back to this topic with some more dimensions as well. My guest this week is Danielle English, who’s on to share more about harm reduction strategi…

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118: Pink Gold - Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico with Dr. María L. Cruz Torres 44:20

7M ago44:20

44:20

The idea of fish industry tends to feel big, vague, and hyper-masculine – it’s easy to think of tales of fisherman and ideals of masculinity. But as my guest this week shares, there are so many complexities to how gender, fishing, and identities intersect. My guest this week is Dr. María L. Cruz Torres. She is an Associate Professor in the School o…

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117: Unpacking Anti-Fatness in Health and Nutrition for Body Liberation with Patrilie Hernandez of Embody Lib 40:32

8M ago40:32

40:32

Health, nutrition, and food are spaces that can be fraught with harmful and perpetual misconceptions of the body, to the point where many people of the global majority may not always feel safe or heard. My guest this week, Patrilie Hernandez, is someone who works to create more weight-inclusive and nutritionally holistic practices at the forefront …

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116: How Ozempic and Stomach Paralysis Impact Relationships with Food with Emily Wright 33:20

8M ago33:20

33:20

Across social media and TV advertisements, drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have risen in recent years and are quickly associated with weight loss and celebrity lifestyles. Yet semaglutide drugs (which includes Ozempic and Wegovy) are intended originally as a drug for use by adults with type 2 diabetes, to manage blood sugar levels along with diet and…

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#120 Discovering Herbal Wisdom: Rachelle Robinett's Journey to Holistic Health 1:02:42

8M ago1:02:42

1:02:42

Curiosity and listening are powerful tools on our healing journeys. Rachelle Robinett, founder and CEO of Pharmakon Supernatural, knows that to create profound growth and transformation, we need to be intrigued with what we consume—orally, visually and auditorily—and how that impacts our ability to lead balanced, satisfying lives. She shares insigh…

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115: Unboxing the History of TV Dinners with Jeff Swystun 39:18

8M ago39:18

39:18

When you think about the concept of a TV dinner, there is a wash of nostalgia that can takeover how you remember the tastes and functions of the dinner itself. But the story of how these TV dinners came to our North American freezers is a fascinating and fun exploration into a lot of the social and technological progress of the 20th century. My gue…

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114: Honouring Maternal Ancestries through Cooking and Restaurant Development with Ruben Rodriguez of Nai Restaurant Groups 41:43

8M ago41:43

41:43

Alright everyone, this is the first episode back after the holiday break, so I hope that this finds you rested, stuffed, and balancing all the new year expectations as well as you can be! For today’s show, I am chatting with chef Ruben Rodriguez, who is a Galcian-born chef and restauranteur of Nai Restaurant Group. Ruben immigrated to New Jersey wi…

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#119 Exploring Psychedelic Therapy for Immigrants and Refugees With Malek Asfeer 1:08:30

9M ago1:08:30

1:08:30

What if every aspect of your life was suddenly disrupted? You can’t go to your job, you can’t see your friends and family, you can’t go home. For refugees and immigrants, such challenges compound with a lack of access to safe and inclusive healing modalities—including psychedelics. Enter Malek Asfeer, whose dedication to humanitarian causes include…

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113: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security with Dr. Matias Margulis 40:17

9M ago40:17

40:17

Before we jump into today’s show, I wanted to give listeners a heads up that today is the last AnthroDish episode for 2023, but we will be returning with more episodes this season on Tuesday, January 9th so be sure to tune back in this new year! Today we’re exploring a topic that I personally find sometimes quite challenging to access and fully und…

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112: Dinner on Mars - How Technologies that Could Feed the Red Planet Can Transform Agriculture on Earth 28:55

10M ago28:55

28:55

What happens when two food scientists get bored in a pandemic? It turns out, they start to brainstorm how they would feed a colony of humans on Mars. What might seem like a trivial question is actually a more nuanced exploration of how we can sustain ourselves on Mars, and what we can learn from this thought experiment back on Earth, too. My guests…

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111: Reframing Cookbooks, and Salad as Comfort Food with Nat and Bec Davey of Reframeables 56:14

10M ago56:14

56:14

When you think about comfort food, what types of meals or dishes come to mind – is it mashed potatoes and gravy, the best of your grandmother’s kitchens, or a chickpea curry? Often we have this idea around “comforting” foods that is rooted so deeply in our family ties and meaty or hearty cultural dishes. Yet sometimes, comfort food can be a bit mor…

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#118 Getting to the Root of Seasonal Depression - Dr. LeTa Jussila 54:40

10M ago54:40

54:40

As the Northern Hemisphere turns towards winter, many of us are feeling not only the encroaching dark and cold weather but also seasonal depression. While hustle culture pushes us to keep grinding, what we actually need is a little extra TLC. Enter LeTa Jussila, a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Licensed Herbalist and Fitness Trainer. …

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110: Creating Safer Community for Breweries and Vulnerable Neighbours with Ren Navarro of B.Diversity 37:08

10M ago37:08

37:08

Alcohol has been navigating a new social landscape in America and Canada since COVID hit. While there were signs that alcohol consumption was rising with lockdowns, there’s also been more spaces for conversation around the use of alcohol as a drug, or trickier relationships with drinking and binge drinking, amidst a backdrop of the drug use crisis …

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