• Search
    • Sign up for our newsletter
    March 10, 2014
    SHARE
    CANADALAND
    #23 Why Food Trends are for Idiots
    Jen Agg on the problems with Canadian restaurants.

    Synopsis:

    The Black Hoof made Toronto a hip restaurant town, and its imitators pop-up every week, all across Canada. Owner Jen Agg shares good wine and strong opinions about food culture, food trends and food media.

    Links:

    Jen Agg on Twitter (link)

    DouchebagGate (link)

    People mentioned: 

    David Chang, Matt Galloway, not Corey Mintz.

    Topics discussed:

    Where did all these loud little restaurants come from? Why did everyone suddenly get all into food? Are food trends just for idiots? Is food culture sexist? Do chefs all think they’re rock stars? Is the Internet better at choosing restaurants than food critics? Is Chowhound just a bunch of fucking jackals? Why are so many celebrated Canadian restaurants not really that good?

    Wine served: 

    Norman Hardie County unfiltered Pinot Noir (link)

    Lucien Crochet “La Croix du Roy” Sancerre Rouge Pinot Noir (link)

     

    More from this series
    #1160 Confessions of a Girls Gone Wild Merch Girl
    “ It was hot girls having a blast. There's nothing wrong with that. I thought it was aspirational. I did not yet realize that we were in fact shooting porn and that that was actually happening in the back room of the bus that we were living on.” - Courtney Kocak, former Girls Gone Wild “Merch Girl”
    May 19, 2025
    #1156 To Catch a Creep Catcher
    “ My brother, first and foremost, was a good person. He was very bright, he was educated, and he was autistic. And I think had he not met the creeper hunter, I think he would still be alive today.” -Brother of “John Doe #1”
    May 12, 2025
    #1152 Is Canada Leading the Anti-Trump “Resistance”?
    “We need to start dis-entangling from the United States as quickly as possible, economically, politically, socially, militarily, and culturally.” -Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War
    May 5, 2025
    #1148 Canadaland’s Election Confessions
    Jesse Brown is an ideological slut. Well, so he says. His past votes have jumped, in no particular order, from the Conservatives to the NDP “....maybe there was a fringe party or Parti Québécois vote in there somewhere, I can’t even remember who I’ve thrown in with over the years — I have no loyalty, I’m politically promiscuous.”
    April 28, 2025
    Larry of the North: 70 Years of Arctic Sovereignty
    “I'm just watching the great powers in between me and down there and over there and it's almost like a bad nightmare.” - Larry Audlaluk
    April 21, 2025
    Investigation: What Mark Carney Won’t Say About Brookfield
    “ Here is what I would've done if I was Mark Carney, right? Just let it be out there. If you really have nothing to hide, don't hide.” - Professor Partha Mohanram
    April 14, 2025
    Election Dysfunction and Bozo Eruptions
    “...the tentacles of party discipline and party control have completely grabbed a hold of everybody and they have a really hard time breaking free. We just no longer have politicians who can speak their minds, politicians who can stand up on behalf of their constituents.” -Alex Marland, author of Whipped: Party Discipline in Canada
    April 7, 2025
    When the Alt-Right “Infiltrated” a Small Town
    “   …the City of Pickering has witnessed a growing infiltration of alt right individuals, ideologies, and influences that have created an atmosphere of uncertainty, fear, and intimidation over our Council, our staff, our residents, and indeed the broader community.” - Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe
    March 31, 2025
    all podcasts arrow All Podcasts
    CANADALAND