Home Cooked
Episodes
The Nose
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Mastrandrea was born into his parents’ Italian bakery in Woodbridge, Ontario. After achieving international success as an architect, he start...
Love, Easy as Pie
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 gam...
Emergency Soup
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
MNJIKNINI (The Fence Man) Part 3 ~ Cooking with Kenton
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One hundred years of colonization, the outlawing of traditional harvesting methods, a global pandemic and the death of Kenton Snache - the man who gav...
MNJIKNINI (The Fence Man) Part 2 ~ Beneath the Surface
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
MNJIKNINI (The Fence Man) Part 1~ Missing Ingredients
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For almost 100 years, the Chippewas of Rama were legally forbidden to fish, hunt and harvest on their traditional territories. For Kory Snache, learni...
After a pandemic pause, Home Cooked is back.
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 the...
Ivy, Uprooted
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Harvest on the Ice
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bernadette has a mission: To pass on her Inuit ancestors’ skills in finding and cooking food — in a harsh Arctic environment where harvesting has ...
Living Legacy
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1898, during the Gold Rush, Ione Christensen’s grandfather brought to the Yukon a wad of sourdough starter, the essential ingredient in making ge...
Home Cooked more family stories freshly baked
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Breakfast of Champions
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Nashvill...
Model Kitchen
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Dawn's Parting Gift
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Flesh and Blood
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 u...
On the Back Burner
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Fren...
The Biryani Stops Here
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 re...
Home Cooked Trailer
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. E...