Brit Sochting: The Good Bugs
Have we become too clean? Listen in and explore the dirty and beautiful world of microbes inside our bodies, and learn how we can do better to support our inner cultures.
Farhan Hussain: Homesick for Home Cooking
Farhan chronicles his journey of adjusting to the food in Canada as an international student and find others with similar experiences.
Timurlane Cakmak: A UBC Student’s Journey With Food
This story follows a UBC student’s journey with bulimia nervosa. As well, Candice Rideout, UBC researcher and professor of Food Nutrition and Health, provides insights on eating disorders.
Giuliana Bianco: People of the Farm
What does it take to manage a farm day-to-day? Guliana travels from Smithers to Vancouver, talking to farmers about the challenges of the profession.
Salia Joseph: The Ground Beneath Your Feet
Salia introduces us to Knowing the Land Beneath Our Feet, a multimedia initiative aimed at bringing UBC’s rich Indigenous history and presence to light to teach students, faculty, staff and visitors alike about their responsibility to uphold the relationships signified by these pieces.
Matt Segal: Finding the Self, Anonymous
Binge-eating disorder (B.E.D.) is the most common eating disorder in North America. Matt tries to get a better understanding of the disorder and the people who live with it.
Lyncee Dela Cruz: Feeding Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Looking at the today’s food landscape in the Downtown Eastside, Lyncee reflects on what has changed since she grew up and explores the initiatives that have risen in more recent years.
Olivia Shaw: Chinatown’s Food System, Dialogue Up Top & On The Ground
Chinatown is undergoing rapid changes to its landscape and, consequently, to its long-established local food system. The forces of gentrification are increasingly pushing out the neighbourhood’s greengrocers—some of the most affordable fresh fruit and vegetable vendors in the city. What kind of dialogue and planning is going on, on the part of the community organizers […]
Kate Stafford: Chickpeas or Chicken?
We’ve all got that friend… “Meat is Murder,” “I love tofu,” “Vegan is the new vegetarian.” But not all vegans are crazy vegetable thumpers. Kate Stafford investigates what is causing Vancouver to become Veg-couver.
Hao Wang: Introduction to Lao Gan Ma, Chinese traditional chili sauce
Lao Gan Ma is the most famous chilli sauce in China. It is influencing Chinese International Student around the world.
W2016 Group Pieces
Teams of four students created pieces based on Wendell Berry’s “The Pleasures of Eating.”
Jenny Lu: Where are Chinese-Canadians’ Stories in Vancouver’s Local Food Movement?
Chinese farmers have a long history in Vancouver. But why are their stories absent from our region’s narrative of local food?