Home Cooked

Andrea Mastrandrea was born into his parents’ Italian bakery in Woodbridge, Ontario. After achieving international success as an architect, he started yearning for the bakery... especially its familiar smells.  So he created Forno Cultura: blending his two loves - beautiful architectural design and delicious baked goods. 

Toshiko and Sid Adilman met in the early 60s. She was from Tokyo and he was from Toronto. After just one week of knowing each other, they took the gamble of their lives. And their enduring love story has more or less stumped their son Nobu who has wondered for years - what his parent's secret recipe was. Then it occurred to him, his biggest clue may be in his mom’s kitchen.

Mike Greenberg made a big decision during the pandemic. He left his chef job at a trendy downtown Toronto restaurant, and went from nine tables to now making more than 5000 meals weekly 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.

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 conclusion of Kory's story, we are back in Rama First Nation with Kory at his dad’s old house. And we finally make his dad’s famous fish cakes together.

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.