Food Is Culture | A Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Today’s guest Moksha is a fountain of knowledge. I will say our chat went deep. The food we put into out bodies effects everything. And as a women, hearing Moksha connect the food she was eating and her cycles and how she felt was huge.

I love her food journey. And listening to her speak of food as medicine and fuel really is a great reset for the way I had been looking at food as of late.

She has wonderful cooking videos on Youtube and Facebook, I will link those in the show notes.

Food is the most over used anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underused antidepressant. Care of @kaylabarnes

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Visit www.sovereigneats.com 

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I was so excited to sit down with Emily Elyse Miller. She is the Founder and CEO of OffLimits cereal. She has also written a cookbook, called Breakfast and hosted a pop up series called the BreakfastClub. She is passionate about delicious food with awesome ingredients. I loved sitting down with her and talking food. 

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To check out Emily on Instagram @emilyelysemiller

To check out Off Limits on Instagram @offlimits

Check out EatOffLimits.com to order cereal. 

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To follow host Billy Buttery on Instagram @billybuttery

To check out the Food Is Culture blog on billybuttery.com

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Welcome to Food Is Culture | A Podcast!

On today's episode Jenny from Little Love Lifestyle and Little Lunch Love joins me today and shares some fantastic info on the school lunching packing game. Jenny started packing lunches for her daughter and started documenting the journey. That journey has evolved to include their daily lives but packing lunches still has a special spot on her social media and website. 

This is a 3 part episode. Today we talk about What Gear To Buy.

Part 1 is What To Pack

Part 3 is Jenny's Hacks For Lunch Packing 

Stay tuned for all 3.

Jenny will be posting a shopping guide to accompany this episode. Please be sure to subscribe to her mailing list to be the first to get the list when it comes out. www.littlelunchlove.com

Check out muccifarms.com for their complete line of produce, grown in Ontario. 

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To follow guest Jenny on Instagram visit @littlelovelifestyle & @little_lunch_love

And you can check out her website LittleLoveLifestyle.com

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To follow host Billy Buttery on Instagram @billybuttery

To check out the Food Is Culture blog on billybuttery.com

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Welcome back to Food Is Culture | A Podcast!

On today's episode Jenny from Little Love Lifestyle and Little Lunch Love joins me today and shares some fantastic info on the school lunching packing game. Jenny started packing lunches for her daughter and started documenting the journey. That journey has evolved to include their daily lives but packing lunches still has a special spot on her social media and website. 

This is a 3 part episode. Today we talk about What To Pack.

Part 2 is What Gear To Buy

Part 3 is Jenny's Hacks For Lunch Packing 

Stay tuned for all 3.
 

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To follow guest Jenny on Instagram visit @littlelovelifestyle & @little_lunch_love

And you can check out her website LittleLoveLifestyle.com

To follow Food Is Culture | A Podcast along on Instagram @foodisculture.apodcast

To follow host Billy Buttery on Instagram @billybuttery

To check out the Food Is Culture blog on billybuttery.com

Intro & Outro Music and Editing Provided by @roninimperial from @bigsmokebounce

Podcast Artwork by @giftsfrombilly

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A little snack size episode with a few updates. Enjoy August and chat in a couple weeks! 

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I hope you’ve eaten. This episode had my stomach talking to me!

Today’s guest is a fellow Torontonian, a fellow podcast host, and we have a shared love of a local restaurant.

Alex Hajjar’s love of food and his culture is clear. He is so knowledgable on all delicious Arabic foods, his memories of his grandmother’s cooking are so lovely, his aunts’ bakery sounds wonderful, and he has traveled all over.

Alex and I initially connected online and we chat a bit about that and how the meta verse is slowly taking over everyday run ins and daily interactions. And chance would have it, we both grew up in Toronto. 

I often say Toronto is so small. And it really is. Toronto is a wonderful city made up of many tiny pockets of cultures and neighbourhoods, and made smaller by the people who were born and raised and still live here!

After our conversation we chatted a bit more and have less than a 2 degree of separation. Remember that game? 7 degrees of separation? It’s actually only 6 now as our world has gotten smaller. And I remember reading an article years ago in Vanity Fair (I think?!) that locals in Rome had the fewest average degrees of separation being only about 1.5.

I hope you enjoy this episode! There are lots of great links in the show notes to check out and if you’re local to North York in Toronto check out Jerusalem!

Keeskoon! (Cheers in Lebanese) 

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Food:

Labaneh - very thick yogurt dip

Shaabiyat - dessert treat similar to Baklava

Hummus - Alex's tip is to use the water from the chickpea can or water from boiling to use in the hummus when making from scratch. 

Want more dessert recommendations? check out this blog post I found on Traditional Lebanese Desserts

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Links:

Jerusalem Restaurant http://www.jerusalemrestaurant.ca

Marché Adonis - Mediterranean market with the pita maker https://www.groupeadonis.ca/fr/on

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To follow Alex Hajjar on Instagram @socialanimalspodcast 

Check out Social Animals podcast

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To check out the Food Is Culture blog on billybuttery.com

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SNACK SIZE | Pizza

Who doesn't love pizza?! My husband and I recount a couple of our favourite pizza memories in this SNACK SIZE episode.

We talk Neapolitan pizza, Roman pizza, a Toronto childhood classic: Pizza Pizza, Pizza Hut, and one of or favourite memories from our honeymoon... touring Pompeii 

My husband Ronin says he doesn't like to talk... but you be the judge! 

Have you heard the last episode we did together? #17 - Hungover, A Bowl Of Ramen, & No Ring

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In Napoli where love is king
When boy meets girl
Here's what they say
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie
That's amore
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine
That's amore
Bells will ring, ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing, "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay tarantella

-Dean Martin "That's Amore"

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Today’s guest Amanda Gates is amazing. Amanda is an Advanced Feng Shui Practitioner, an Interior Designer, a Realtor, an author! Oh and she has a podcast, a blog, video show, and online courses! She is a busy woman and so chockfull of amazing information.

We talk about the energy of the dining table, the importance of the stove, and the overall vibe of kitchens.

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To follow guest Amanda Gates on Instagram @theamandagates

To visit Amanda Gate's website and blog check out: https://gatesinteriordesign.com

And to view her courses go to http://courses.gatesinteriordesign.com/directory

To check out Amanda's podcast Home | Energy | Design click HERE

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To check out the Food Is Culture blog billybuttery.com

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Today's guest Cristin has found her voice and connected to her ancestors & heritage through food. Having not yet visited Italy, she roams the piazza's and pictures the mediterranean while enjoying and cooking the food of her people. 

Sprezzatura - a term coined by Italian author in the 1500’s, meaning the art of looking great, but without fussiness. Sprezzatura which is a nonchalance, concealing all effort and making the finished product or outfit look stylish and polished. And that’s what comes to mind when I think of Italian food. Stracciatella Soup Or bruschetta…elegant in their simplicity.

Casal Velino is a town and commune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.

Thinking of buying a house in Italy? Click here for the article I mentioned in the episode on buying a beautiful house, in a small town, for very cheap.

Stracciatella Soup recipe by Giada De Laurentiis

Lidia Bastianich - Youtube channel

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On today’s STAPLE episode I’m talking about the 4 most important ingredients to have on hand to bake anything: Butter, Sugar, Flour, Eggs. 

Eggs: Did you know most baking recipes call for a large egg? A large egg weighs about 50 grams. Why is that important? Well baking is a science. And how much egg is in a recipe counts. So if you regularly purchase extra large or jumbo eggs and a recipe calls for a couple eggs you may want to do some quick math and see if you need to put all the eggs the recipe calls for. It will change the texture, rise, and taste of your creation.

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Have you listened to episode #1 with Troy Gonsalves? I learnt so much about Troy and Guyana in that interview. Troy is a friend and does these great LinkedIn live interviews, and he interviewed me! If you want to switch it up and see me, not only hear me, check out the video on Troy’s LinkedIn

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To follow Food Is Culture | A Podcast along on Instagram @foodisculture.apodcast

To follow host Billy Buttery on Instagram @billybuttery

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