What’s the future for Indigenous food?
The Food Chain
BBC
4.7 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Indigenous food is experiencing a revival in Canada, with growing awareness of First Nations culture, and Indigenous run community farms and restaurants opening.
While many are hopeful, there remains challenges to food security, including the realities of living in remote areas, the legacy of historic government schemes and climate change.
Megan Lawton speaks to First Nation farmers, restauranteurs and chefs.
Presented by Megan Lawton
Produced by Sam Gruet
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about |
| 0:03.3 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously, also from the BBC |
| 0:07.8 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning, sorry. |
| 0:11.9 | Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, |
| 0:17.2 | your Dead to Me is available first on BBC Sounds, a whole month earlier than anywhere |
| 0:22.2 | else in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear the very latest in history and loads |
| 0:27.4 | of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. When you think about food and Canada, |
| 0:34.4 | what do you picture? Is it French fries with cheese curds and brown gravy, best known as Putin? |
| 0:41.7 | Or is it pancakes and maple syrup? |
| 0:45.5 | You're probably not thinking about Bannock or Bison. |
| 0:49.8 | A lot of people wouldn't have had Indigenous cuisine unless they were invited to somebody's home. |
| 0:54.1 | Or maybe you were. |
| 0:55.9 | Indigenous cuisine is in this moment of revitalization. |
| 1:01.3 | As much as many are hopeful, there are big challenges too. |
| 1:05.5 | The good, healthy food is very expensive. |
| 1:08.0 | You've got to be rich to be eating good. |
| 1:10.6 | On this edition of the food chain on the BBC World Service with me, Megan Lawton, |
| 1:15.8 | we're finding out about the revival of indigenous cuisine. |
| 1:19.4 | We have very big plans. I think we're growing every year and doing something different. |
| 1:25.0 | As well as the hurdles still facing Canada's First Nations. |
| 1:29.0 | Some nations, like even in Canada, don't have running water. |
| 1:35.1 | But we're starting this episode in the kitchen, between bubbling pots of elk chili, |
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