700: Eating Canadian - Live from Hot Docs Podcast Festival

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week’s show was recorded live at the Hot Docs Podcast Festival in Toronto. Francis and his team of intrepid eaters tackle a tantalizing question: what makes Canada so delicious? Guests include Matty “The Flavor Lord” Matheson (Just a Dash); Greater Toronto Area food, drink and travel writer Suresh Doss; and New York Times food columnist and host of our Weeknight Kitchen podcast Melissa Clark, who impresses everyone with her quick thinking in a game of Stump the Cook.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

January 24, 2020 (originally aired)

January 29, 2021 (rebroadcast)

November 24, 2023 (rebroadcast)

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Francis. You know, just the other week I saw photos pop up in my social feeds of the Toronto Hot Docs Podcast Festival, and right away I had this huge smile on my face remembering the time we got to record an episode from there.
0:15.0	We went up there with Melissa Clark and talked with Maddie Matheson,
0:18.0	Suresh Doss, and Joshna Maharaj about what makes Canadian food so good. Check it out.
0:26.0	I'm Francis Lamb and this is the splendid table from APM American Public Media,
0:30.0	the show for Curious Cook cooks and eaters.
0:35.0	Last fall, we had the great luck of being invited to record at the Hot Docs Podcast Festival in Toronto.
0:45.9	It is this phenomenal event.
0:48.8	Over six nights we were surrounded by friends and heroes, frankly frankly on stage with a live audience at the Ted
0:55.7	Rogers cinema and we thought this would be a great chance to take a real look at how Toronto and
1:01.5	Canada eat. Our first guest was Maddie Matheson and this dude is just living his best life.
1:10.8	Here's a guy who went from being a restaurant cook to a chef to them
1:15.4	being someone who has a music festival named after him, one where the Wu-Tang
1:20.2	came and performed and a big part of the reason for that transformation is just that people love him.
1:27.0	They love him on Instagram. They love buying kitchen aprons, modeled on his naked tattooed belly. They love watching his shows.
1:35.6	Maddie Mathison is also the author of the New York Times best-selling cookbook,
1:39.8	Maddie Mathison, a cookbook. And as he made his way on stage, the crowd showed him some love. What's up Toronto? Beautiful people.
1:56.7	Thanks Francis.
1:57.8	Look how good he is at this.
1:59.7	He's going to spit a few bars.
2:02.4	So Maddie, I am so excited to have you here.
2:04.0	Yeah, man.
2:05.0	For a lot of reasons.
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