Grab a spot at the table, listeners, and check out our DNTO cookbook! It's a collection of recipes from Sook-Yin, the DNTO team and some of our regular storytellers. Who knows - you might even find a favourite new recipe.

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For many people, putting a meal on the table isn't always the easiest thing in the world to do. 

That was especially true for Maureen Hanley's family of twelve,living in rural Prince Edward Island. She'll tell the story of how a pig named Fitch taught her an important lesson about what we eat. 

You know you're on to something when Rick Mercer takes up your cause. Sook-yin will talk to federal inmate Greg Mcmaster about the recent ban on outside food in prisons, and how it's dramatically affected his life behind bars. 

As a Muslim, Nadia Kidwai asts from sun-up until sundown during Ramadan... which was something she never found particularly hallenging until she moved to Winnipeg, when Ramadan fell during the very long, very hot days of summer. 

Sook-Yin pays a visit to Luca Lucarini, a Toronto film-maker turned olive oil enthusiast. He'll explain how a bottle of his home-made oil can transport him back to his ancestral village in Italy.

 

Plus, the story of a seal-hunting trip gone terribly wrong. Joe Karetak will give his harrowing account of being stranded overnight in -57 degree weather - all in the name of gathering traditional food. (Photo Courtesy Joe Karetak, on right) 

We all know that going hungry is bad for our health - but is it bad for our neighbourhoods as well? Mark Brand, owner of Save on Meats in Vancouver's Downtown East Side talks about how his sandwich token sets out to help his neighbourhood out of hunger. 

Celebrity chef and musician Roger Mooking, host of Everyday Exotic, tells the story of his family's most famous meal. 

Have you ever sent your food back in a restaurant only to be judged by your fellow diners? That's what happened to Mark Schatzker, when he dined out with Globe and Mail journalist Ian Brown. Read Ian's article about the dining debacle, and then take a look at Mark's reply. 

There is nothing worse than opening your lunch kit at school and finding out that all of the other kids have something better. But it's even worse when they actually make fun of what you're eating. Orit Saaed tells her tale of serious lunchbox envy, and how her dad Ali saved the day. 

And Nick Purdon never had a problem eating what he caught in the wilderness... until the day he made eye contact with what he was about to devour.

Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My Hose

Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Squeeze - Pulling Mussels from the Shell

kd Lang - Constant Craving

Erik Lind & The Orchard - If We Knew Then

The New Pornographers - Spirit of Giving

Roger Mooking - Umeus

Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket

Boats - Great Skulls