Lynn: The Importance of Bubble Tea
Join us as we talk about bubble tea (a popular Taiwanese drink), its origins, and its cultural importance in Vancouver. Photo courtesy of Orimi Protograph/Unsplash
Anisha: Food For Change
Do people think their dietary choices impact the planet? Will changing the way we eat change the planet? How easy is it for the masses to apply these changes? Listen to find out!
Jasmine Lee: Away-From-Home Cooking
Does food connect home to you? What happens when you don’t get to decide your own food when you miss home but you’re living in university? Let find out!
Joy: Cafeteria Costs
UBC meal plan is usually one of the major components for first students, many students find it quite expensive. Let’s dive into this affordability topic together!
Alina: Imagining a Life Without Sugar
Sugar is commonly known as the silent killer, as high consumption of added sugars in processed foods can lead to many health complications. Everyone knows to decrease consumption of it, but it is harder to do for some than others.
Isabella: Eat Right to Play Well!
This story follows the general experience of a hockey player and food from how they prepare for games and what a day looks like.
Pam & Margaret: Women, Prison, and Food
Women who experience incarceration in BC face many challenges, tune in as Margaret and Pam discuss how food systems in prisons can impact women’s health and wellbeing during prison and following release. Graphic: Photo of Pam, taken by Margaret
Gabriele Dumpys Woolever: Where’s the Vancouver Indigenous Food Scene?
Vancouver is a cosmopolitan city that prides itself on its food scene. But with so much cultural diversity and support for “local” food values, why aren’t there more Indigenous restaurants here? Two Indigenous entrepreneurs help us understand. Music by Blue Dot Sessions (in order of appearance): Mr. Mole & Son Tapoco Critter Li Fonte Pastel […]
Kathryn: Fight Climate Change, One Cup at a Time
In 2021, it’s going to cost 25 cents to take your coffee to-go in Vancouver unless you bring your own cup. UBC implemented this charge almost a year earlier. How will this impact climate change? What else can we do if we still want to take out coffee? Music and Sound Credit: freemusicarchive.org soundbible.com
Christine Bowden: Breaking Bread
Breaking bread is about the efforts made to bring community together for shared meals, from the home to school and postsecondary environments.
Claire: Canada’s ‘Other Public Health Crisis
Approximately a billion people in the world do not have access to safe, clean drinking water. Thousands of them live in Canada, this podcast explores why . Music: Water by Resonancedj, Blue Lobster by Daniel Birch and Sinking in the Rain by Daniel Birch Photo by George Becker