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 i…

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 l…

For almost 100 years, the Chippewas of Rama were legally forbidden to fish, hunt and harvest on their traditional territories. For Kory Snache, learning to fish was a nighttime clandestine activity under constant police threat. With the Williams Treaties resettled now, Kory takes us spearfishing showing how his community held on to the vital ingred…

In March of 2020, like much of the rest of the world, Home Cooked abruptly stopped production on the first episode of this season. And for a while there, we weren’t sure we’d get back to it. But when the main subject of the story – with whom we began recording back in the summer of 2019 – continued inviting host Sarah Martin back for more interview…

When Ivy’s grandma died, the chef and food writer decided it was high time to finally learn how to make grandma Marthe’s famous tourtière recipe from the Gaspésie. Ivy visits her aunt Jeannine’s kitchen - a world apart from her mother’s hippie homestead kitchen in PEI - to discover her French-Canadian roots.…

Bernadette has a mission: To pass on her Inuit ancestors’ skills in finding and cooking food — in a harsh Arctic environment where harvesting has a whole new meaning, and survival means sharing everything. On the edge of the Arctic Circle, Bernadette and her old friend Christopher take Sarah out onto the Arctic sea ice to hunt and harvest a whole c…

In 1898, during the Gold Rush, Ione Christensen’s grandfather brought to the Yukon a wad of sourdough starter, the essential ingredient in making generation after generation of delicious bread. Ione has achieved many things during her lifetime, but the most significant may be guarding this precious commodity, and keeping its tradition alive — liter…

From a century old sourdough starter to a caribou hunt on the edge of the Arctic Circle, more stories about family recipes and why they get passed on in a brand new season of our critically-acclaimed podcast, Home Cooked.Oleh Sarah Martin

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Karl fed his Jamaican chopped liver to his boys for breakfast, to fuel them for hockey practice. It worked: P.K. is an all-star defenceman in Nashville and Malcolm tends goal for Las Vegas. When the youngest, Jordan, followed his older brothers footsteps of playing in the NHL, it was the liver that kept him company on the road. Homecookedpodcast.co…

As a kid, Ashtyn was known for her love of food and her adventurous palate. Becoming a model in New York City changed that. Ashtyn is determined to reconcile her work with her fondness for food. Luckily she has a sister who’s a professional chef to help her. homecookedpodcast.com for recipes, photos and videos.…

Shaun lost his Mom to cancer when he was in university. She was the one who gently pushed him to join the marching band when he was just a little kid growing up in freezing cold Regina. He would go on to become a professional trumpet player and composer. The trumpet and his go-to comfort food — Dawn’s chocolate chip cookies — have kept his Mom’s sp…

For José’s tightly-knit family, meals have always been an important time to be together — over a Colombian diet of meat, meat and more meat. At university, José learned to see some things differently and decided to become a vegan. But he can’t give up his seat at the family table, and his mom would never let that happen. homecookedpodcast.com for r…

At school, Nick was embarrassed by the smell of the Chinese food his parents packed him for lunch. When he decided to become a chef, he perfected French techniques under some of the top chefs in North America and Europe. Returning home, it was his grandmother’s wontons that gave him a jolt of sensory memory that would define his current success. ho…

Natasha moved from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia to The Netherlands before moving to Canada. The one constant growing up was her mom’s chicken biryani recipe. But Natasha can't cook - she says she can't even boil water - and she's scared that she'll never eat the delicious Pakistani dishes she grew up with after her mom is gone. Luckily her non-Pakistan…

A new show about family recipes and why they get passed on. Join host Sarah Martin as she takes us inside family kitchens to cook cherished recipes. Every episode contains three vital ingredients: a great yarn around a family recipe, delicious food and terrific characters. Visit homecookedpodcast.com for recipes, photos and videos.…

Here's a song from the Grateful Dead Reckoning album. A great old time tune. HERE she is.Oleh David Caplan

An old bluegrass tune that we used to sing a lot when I lived in Toronto! HERE she is.Oleh David Caplan

A Neil Young tune that I love... HERE.Oleh David Caplan

Here's a little song experiment I recorded about 4 years ago. Just found it on my computer and thought I'd put it up. HERE she is.Oleh David Caplan

Traction in the Rain, from David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name" album. A bit of a long intro though... Get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

Finally a new update... this one is sort of from an Old and In the Way (bluegrass group with Jerry Garcia and John Kahn) live show that I have. It's also my first bluegrass tune :) Get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

I dug this one up from the Stoods archive. Me and Adrian playing 4+20 (Crosby, Stills...) in the way beginning of the studio. You can hear Gross using the staple gun for the "decorations" outside the room. Get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

Originally done by Led Zeppelin (III, 1970). I'm singing and Richie P. plays all the guitar. Sounds pretty good, get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

Simon and Garfunkel song, appears in "The Graduate". I'm doing guitar and vocals. I will probably make another version of it later, it's a fun song. Get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

This was one of the first songs we recorded. Don't listen too carefully, there are a bunch of glitches in the sound... :) The song is Dear Mr. Fantasy, written by Traffic. Adrian is playing guitar, I'm singing, and somebody else (I forget) recorded the bass. Get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

I'm happy to release this one. Originally written by Joni Mitchell, probably made popular by CSNY, Woodstock is a sweet song. Richard P. is playing guitar and I'm singing. Get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

The song is originally by Van Morrison. This one was recorded a while back in Gross' studio 85 in Montreal. The guitarist is Adrian "B" Gross, and it's me doing vocals. This one is a pretty decent quality recording and sounds good as a tune. Get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

This is based on the Jimi Hendrix song. It was played and recorded in David Gross' basement... also known as "Studio Loco" (just what I called it). In the "studes" that day, there was Richie Piasetsky (drums), Adrian Gross (lead guitar) and a Ben Wright (rhythm guitar), and me (David) singing. This one is pretty fun to listen to, and was great to p…

Bob Dylan cover, from Desire. I must say the Dylan version is much better. I think my cover needs drums. My cover is also way way too fast, and I'm too lazy to re-record it. Darn. Get the song HEREOleh David Caplan

Paul Simon's "Graceland". This is an awesome song, one of my personal favorites (of singles and albums... not to mention artists). The recording was done in collaboration with Richie Piasetsky on guitar. Richie goes to Queens University in Kingston and is an amazing musician (guitar, drums, piano, kazoo). The song is slightly different than the ori…

This is a Van Morrison cover from Astral Weeks (1968). This version has guitar and vocals and a really uneventful bass line (played on a guitar). It was one of the first songs I wanted to do, because of the challenge in terms of singing like Van. I think it could be a lot better, but as it stands I dont think it is that bad. :) Get it HERE.…

This one is a Dylan song. This is one of the first songs I recorded. It has a strange harmony of a higher voice with a lower voice. I think it sounds pretty nice altogether. Get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

Beatles' cover. This one is a disgrace (in my opinion). Some of the vocals are flat, and the ending is just horrible... If you still want it, get it HERE.Oleh David Caplan

I heard this song on The Basement Tapes, recorded by The Band and Bob Dylan. It is a "traditional prison song" and my version sounds quite like the one found on the Basement Tapes. The song has some harmonies created by multitrack recording, and also harmonica at the end of the song. This one is probably my favorite so far. Get it HERE.…

I'll be making podcasts of all the songs I record, and they'll be put here! The first song I'll post is a Dylan cover, a Simple Twist of Fate. Everything is recorded (multitrack) in Garageband on my IBook G4.Oleh David Caplan