• Unforked

  • By: CBC
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Unforked

By: CBC
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  • Unforked picks apart the food we eat to reveal the culture and politics baked into it. Long-time restaurateur and journalist Samira Mohyeddin is your host and maitre’d. You’ll hear sticky conversations with passionate eaters. Nothing is off the table.
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  • Food as a Love Language

    Food as a Love Language
    Aug 30 2021
    In his bestselling book The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman says we express love through physical touch, words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts and quality time. The Unforked team says there’s a sixth love language: food. Host Samira asks how do we express love through cooking and eating? Folks from St. John’s, Australia, and Vancouver Michelle Zauner [ZONN-er] (Brooklyn, NY) - musician and author of Crying in H-Mart: A Memoir Keith Broni [BROH-nee] (Dublin, Ireland) - Deputy Emoji Officer with Emojipedia
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    27 mins
  • Soul Food

    Soul Food
    Aug 23 2021
    Host Samira Mohyeddin asks how do you honour a beloved food tradition that’s steeped in the slave trade? Guests include Wendie L. Wilson, Halifax-based educator and artist; Michael Twitty, writer and culinary historian; and Sonja Boon, professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University
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    27 mins
  • The Death of the Restaurant Critic

    The Death of the Restaurant Critic
    Aug 16 2021
    Websites like Yelp and Google Review were exploding just as dedicated undercover restaurant critics all but vanished from Canada’s major papers. Host Samira Mohyeddin asks what do we lose and what do we gain when anyone can become an online restaurant critic? And whose opinion should we trust? Guests include Amy Pataki, retired food critic for the Toronto Star and Corey Mintz, writer and food reporter.
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    27 mins

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