Home Cooked

Andrea Mastrandrea was born into his parents’ Italian bakery in Woodbridge, Ontario. After achieving international success as an architect, he started yearning for the bakery... especially its famili…

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 gamble of their lives. And their enduring love story…

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 making more than 5000 meals weekly at the Daily …

One hundred years of colonization, the outlawing of traditional harvesting methods, a global pandemic and the death of Kenton Snache - the man who gave us the fish cake recipe back in 2019. In this c…

For almost 100 years, the Chippewas of Rama were legally forbidden to fish, hunt and harvest on their traditional territories. For Kory Snache, learning to fish was a nighttime clandestine activity u…

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 there, we weren’t sure we’d get back to it. But when…

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 from the Gaspésie. Ivy visits her aunt Jeannine’s kitc…

In 1898, during the Gold Rush, Ione Christensen’s grandfather brought to the Yukon a wad of sourdough starter, the essential ingredient in making generation after generation of delicious bread. Ione …

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. 

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 Nashville and Malcolm tends goal for Las Vegas. When the …

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 to reconcile her work with her fondness for food.  L…

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 growing up in freezing cold Regina. He would go o…

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 university, José learned to see some things differently…

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 French techniques under some of the top chefs in Nort…

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 recipe. But Natasha can't cook - she says she can't e…

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. Every episode contains three vital ingredients: a …