Mike Greenberg made a big decision during the pandemic. He left his chef job at a trendy downtown Toronto restaurant, and went from serving nine tables to now making more than 5000 meals a week at the Daily Bread Food Bank’s industrial kitchen. Here, leaning on his grandma’s Emergency Soup recipe, he’s tackling a large and growing crisis in Canada – food insecurity.

PART 3 ~ COOKING WITH KENTON

One hundred years of colonization, the outlawing of traditional harvesting methods, a global pandemic and the death of Kenton Snache – the man who gave us the fish cake recipe back in 2019. In this episode, we are back in Rama First Nation with Kory at his dad’s old house. And we finally get to make his dad’s famous fish cakes.

PART 2 ~ BENEATH THE SURFACE

In the second part of Kory’s story we learn how Rama First Nation was always a place for the fish harvest. Elder and story keeper Mark Douglas spent his life safeguarding the story of the 5000-year-old Mnjikaning fishing weirs between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. With younger leaders like Kory learning and retelling the story now, Mark feels like he can finally rest.

PART 1 ~ MISSING INGREDIENTS

For almost 100 years, the Chippewas of Rama were legally forbidden to fish, hunt and harvest on their traditional territories. For Kory Snache, learning to fish was a nighttime clandestine activity under constant police threat. With the Williams Treaties resettled now, Kory takes us spearfishing showing how his community held on to the vital ingredients needed to make his dad’s fish cakes.

When Ivy’s grandma died, the chef and food writer decided it was high time to finally learn how to make grandma Marthe’s famous tourtière recipe from the Gaspésie. Ivy visits her aunt Jeannine’s kitchen – a world apart from her mother’s hippie homestead kitchen in PEI – to discover her French-Canadian roots.

Bernadette has a mission: To pass on her Inuit ancestors’ skills in finding and cooking food — in a harsh Arctic environment where harvesting has a whole new meaning, and survival means sharing everything.  On the edge of the Arctic Circle, Bernadette and her old friend Christopher take Sarah out onto the Arctic sea ice to hunt and harvest a whole caribou.

In 1898, during the Yukon Gold Rush, Ione’s grandfather brought a wad of sourdough starter, the essential ingredient in making generation after generation of delicious bread, hot cakes, waffles and cinnamon buns. Ione has achieved many things during her lifetime, but the most significant
may be guarding this precious commodity, and keeping its tradition alive — literally.

SEASON 1 – EPISODE 6

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

SEASON 1 – EPISODE 5

MODEL KITCHEN

SEASON 1 – EPISODE 4

DAWN’S PARTING GIFT

SEASON 1 – EPISODE 3

FLESH AND BLOOD

SEASON 1 – EPISODE 2

ON THE BACK BURNER

SEASON 1 – EPISODE 1  

THE BIRYANI STOPS HERE