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On this edition of 鈥楾oday in BC鈥�, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Kennedy Stewart and Margot Fedoruk, on the fifth edition of the 鈥楳ade in B.C. Book Club鈥�.
In the first segment, Fedoruk, of Gabriola Island, talks about her memoir which has been shortlisted for Taste Canada鈥檚 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 author鈥檚 childhood to more adventurous coastal B.C. cuisine.
The very first line of the book catches readers attention: 鈥淭he night I ran over Rick with my car.鈥�
鈥淚t was quite the night,鈥� said Fedoruk. 鈥淎nd it鈥檚 funny because I used to tell the story and that鈥檚 how a lot of my stories came about. I鈥檇 tell them to friends and laugh or cry or a little bit of both. And then eventually I鈥檓 realizing 鈥榯hat would be a great opening to my memoir.鈥欌��
There鈥檚 a recipe with the story for 鈥楰iller Lasagna鈥�.
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.
鈥淲hat we鈥檙e doing isn鈥檛 working and what it鈥檚 doing is costing people鈥檚 lives,鈥� said Stewart. 鈥淚t is the number one killer of young people in British Columbia now, the largest killer of kids aged 10 to 18. We can鈥檛 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.鈥�
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