Foodstuffs

Episode 5 of Foodstuffs takes us away from home; we head to Montreal with Jess to talk about food and politics and then Bryan leads us to Mexico to learn about the rich history of a silky- and healthy?- alcoholic beverage. First up, Jess visits with Diana Bronson, Executive Director of Food Secure Canada, to discuss how voters can impact their representatives to make food- and all its related issues- a topic on Parliament Hill. Then we travel to Mexico, where Bryan learns firsthand the medicinal effects, and historical significance, of pulque- a delicious drink with a complicated past. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THANKS! Thanks this week to Diana Bronson of Food Secure Canada (http://foodsecurecanada.org/) and Hugo Martorell for setting up the interview. Thanks also to Alberto Deleon and the staff of La Perla Pixan Cuisine & Mexcal Store (http://www.laperlaplaya.net/) for hosting Bryan and feeding him grassphoppers and pulque. We are ever grateful to Erik Betlem, Ken Stowar and Sam Petite and CIUT for the use of th