Grocery aisles emptied of flour and sugar, meal delivery kits growing even more in popularity, restaurants pivoting to delivery-only and curbside pick-up, the banana bread craze. During this time of pandemic, we’ve turned to food as a source of comfort, of the little joys we have left. But it’s always been this way. Food has always been a vehicle – a very delicious one! – for transmitting our heritage and culture. Food is comfort, home, joy. It is gathering, it is nourishment, it is memory. Grab a snack, have a seat, and join us at the table for an episode on the importance of food in passing down family histories, uncovering secrets, and understanding identity. Featured in this episode: • Grace Lau (she/her) is a Hong-Kong-born, Chinese-Canadian writer living in Toronto. Her debut collection of poetry, The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak, was released in May 2021 from Guernica Editions and is available for order here. Her work is published and forthcoming in Grain Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Frontier Poetry, Arc Poetry, and elsewhere. Follow Grace on on Instagram at @thrillandgrace. • Brittany Scarfo, after completing a Bachelor of Education at the University of Toronto, began crossing borders, like the generations that came before her, to work as an educator abroad. As a daughter of immigrants, she struggled to embrace her hyphenated identity, but eventually grew to accept, love and become fiercely proud of it. As an educator, she does her best to step outside the established literary canon to ensure the texts studied celebrate the diversity that exists in her classroom. Follow her on Instagram at @bscarfo. • Christine Vu • Joelle Kidd is a fiction writer, award-winning journalist and editor living in a book-filled basement in Toronto. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, This Magazine, Feels Zine, Prairie Fire and Living Hyphen. She is a flash fiction/non-fiction editor for Cypress Literary Journal and is currently working on her first novel. Learn more about Joelle at joellekidd.com and follow her on Twitter at @joelle_kidd. Living Hyphen is a community seeking to turn up the volume on the voices of hyphenated Canadians. You can purchase our magazine at www.livinghyphen.ca, support us on Patreon, or find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.