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On this edition of âToday in BCâ, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Kennedy Stewart and Margot Fedoruk, on the fifth edition of the âMade in B.C. Book Clubâ.
In the first segment, Fedoruk, of Gabriola Island, talks about her memoir which has been shortlisted for Taste Canadaâs Culinary Literary Award.
Through dark humour and quirky characters, Feroduk reflects on marriage, motherhood, isolation, food and family. Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives is a memoir infused with recipes, from the Eastern European fare of the authorâs childhood to more adventurous coastal B.C. cuisine.
The very first line of the book catches readers attention: âThe night I ran over Rick with my car.â
âIt was quite the night,â said Fedoruk. âAnd itâs funny because I used to tell the story and thatâs how a lot of my stories came about. Iâd tell them to friends and laugh or cry or a little bit of both. And then eventually Iâm realizing âthat would be a great opening to my memoir.ââ
Thereâs a recipe with the story for âKiller Lasagnaâ.
In the second segment McCully chats with Stewart, the former Mayor of Vancouver. In the book Decrim, he outlines how ending the war on drugs and recognizing the overdose crisis as a public health issue will help reduce stigma related to substance use, increase access to health services and decrease harms related to criminalization in British Columbia.
âWhat weâre doing isnât working and what itâs doing is costing peopleâs lives,â said Stewart. âIt is the number one killer of young people in British Columbia now, the largest killer of kids aged 10 to 18. We canât keep our heads in the sand here. You should really listen to the health professionals and the police who have written lots of informed reports on this, and we have to move in the direction that I outlined in the book, decriminalization, safer supply and really treating it like a medical emergency that it is.â
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