The Food Professor

Smell training for the anosmatic, reading between the lines of big food press releases, a conversation about dollar stores with The Food Professor, and registering your beer as an emotional support animal.

One year ago Joshna took her anosmia public on this very podcast, on the heels of a surgery that would help her regain her smell. Now she's 'smell training' and she tells us all about this weird and hopeful process.

Then, reading an announcement about Big Food and Herbicides caught our attention. We parse it to see what it really means when big companies make feel-good announcements about herbicide reduction.

We're very excited to speak with The Food Professor, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, about his recent piece about consumer spending on food at dollar stores. With more than $2 billion in food products sold at dollar stores in Canada alone, spending like this on cheap and presumably low quality foods deserves analysis.

Do you need beer for emotional support? One man decided he did, and to close things off we learn how he tried to make it official!