102: Buying & Selling

This episode focuses on the relationships that underlie the buying and selling of food (and wine), including the ways in which trust is built up through exchange and communication. We start off with some sounds of feedback—but not the awful screechy kind. That’s followed by conversations with Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet of the Montreal Public Markets and Tania Perreault, from the wine bar L’aPéro Buvette. (This conversation is in French—see transcript for English translation.) Both talk about the relationships, cycles, and feedback that make their businesses thrive, while also keeping the commercial aspect as humanistic as possible. The ‘Stick This in Your Mouth’ segment gets pretty cheesy, as David and Maxime do some dances with dairy, and this episode’s Food Questionnaire respondent is politician and environmental champion, the Honorable Sh ...