Sloane’s founder, Hoda Paripoush, is amongst the elite group of the first certified tea sommeliers in North America. She is the first to have received accreditation from both Canadian and US tea associations. Her tea knowledge is further supplemented by professional studies in perfumery at the Studio Des Fragrance in Grasse, France. Building on the principles of perfumery, combined with her love of tea and unwavering commitment to quality, she has created an artisan line of exceptional teas that speak to the elements of scent and taste. Her travels have taken her throughout the mountains of India, China, Japan and Taiwan in search of the finest full-leaf teas and natural ingredients, insisting every step of the way that fine tea can be an everyday luxury. With a relentless passion for discovery, she is constantly inspired by the people she has met and the places she has travelled to.

In this tea masterclass, the duo covers everything from different tea cultures of the world to delicious ways to use tea in the kitchen- that isn't drinking it. This episode is for tea lovers.

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This week, host Bianca Osbourne is joined by Maria Koutsogiannis. Maria is known for her fierce honesty and stripped-back approach to sharing her journey to self-love through overcoming an eating disorder have amassed a global following. By seeking a healthy relationship with food Maria has become an industry leader. She creates alongside brands that not only align with her values but are innovators and industry pioneers like; Bob’s Red Mill, Chiquita, Field Roast, Facebook, and Good Catch Foods. Over the last 5 years as CEO of FoodByMaria, Maria has educated readers and inspired vegans and non-vegans alike to embrace vibrant, wholesome plant-based foods into their daily life. Her straightforward recipes are thoughtful, healthy, and nourishing while satisfying all cravings for classic comfort food and sweet indulgences.

Listen to this episode to hear about her plant-based, not vegan, diet, her new puppy Herbert, making 6 figures as an influencer and how it birthed her non-food venture, and her dream dinner party menu—including the recipe for her mom's famous shredded romaine salad.

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This week, host Bianca Osbourne is joined by Randi Bergman. Randi is a Writer, Consultant, and Founder based in Toronto. She writes about topics such as fashion and lifestyle for publications including The Globe and Mail, The Cut, and Elle Canada, and has worked with brands such as Mejuri, Holt Renfrew, and Starbucks. She is the founder of Capsule 98, a website, podcast, social platform, and one-time clothing collection focusing on nostalgia. It all began when she found a time capsule she'd made at the age of 13 in 1998. She is the author of Toronto Makes, a book that tells the stories of 50+ of the city's finest makers, from ceramicists to artisanal chocolatiers, through written word and photography. Previously, she was the Executive Digital Editor at FASHION Magazine.

Listen to this episode to hear her millennial love of Sex and the City and how it inspired her writing career, her Jewish background love for its traditional food, why she loves anchovies (and how she'll make you love them too), her dream cocktail party guest list— it's long gone, and what's getting her excited in today's fashion.
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This week, host Bianca Osbourne is joined by a guest who believes in the power of food as a meeting point – as a tool that creates space for people to come together. At FoodShare, Jade Guthrie is an educator with the freedom to explore space in relationship with communities across the city – cooking, preserving, eating, and learning together. Her background in social work (MSW) brings an anti-oppressive, critical lens to the work she does around food, with a focus on engaging with food justice and sovereignty movements in meaningful ways. Jade is particularly passionate about mobilizing the stories we tell (both ourselves and others) about food as a means of creating connections and building community. Beyond 9-5, jade is a community organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers, an advocacy co-lead on the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council, and an organizing member of the Soul Food Project TO.

In today's episode, the duo discusses the lack of food security and justice covered in the last election, her love of throwing dinners parties with fully committed themes, how she decompresses with reality tv, the many missions of FoodShare Toronto, what she loves about working with youth; and what you'll only get when talking to kids, how food is the fabric that helps her weave together her identity as a tri-racial woman.
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This week, host Bianca Osbourne is flying solo in a very special episode of the podcast. Have you ever wondered about the person behind the podcast? What about how the podcast came to be?

Listen to this episode to hear all about her journey of becoming, how she eats for her menstrual cycle and hormonal balance, her struggles when she first moved to Toronto, her background in food, and what's to come in this new season of the podcast.

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This week, host Bianca Osbourne is joined by fellow podcast host Rebecca “Bex” Szymczak aka Cardsy B. Bex is is a New York City-based Tarot Reader and Fashion Designer who picked up her first deck of tarot cards at age eleven. After abandoning them to fit in with the cool kids in high school she eventually worked her way up the fashion industry by designing for DKNY, NIKE, and served as Creative Director/VP of Design for Playboy. After experiencing several traumatic losses in a period of five years, she returned to her cards and pulled herself out of a pretty tragic Millennial meltdown using Tarot as a healing tool.

Listen to this episode to hear Bex's journey as a vegan and a foodie, how she got into Tarot, her life as a successful NYC fashion designer, and about the meaning of 'success' and how both she and Bianca dropped everything to start a new career in a new city to chase fulfillment.

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This week, host Bianca Osbourne is joined by Chef Amber Caudle. Born in Ohio, raised in Georgia and a SoCal local for most of her adult life, Chef Amber is an entrepreneur, spiritually-led chef, author, and owner of two restaurants known as The Source Café in Hermosa and Manhattan Beach, California. Amber's commitment is to make a paradigm shift in the world through food. In the restaurant business since the age of 14, Amber worked her way up the ranks and graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelors's in Hotel & Restaurant management. As someone who knows firsthand the struggles of not being able to eat everything you want due to health restrictions and allergies, Amber doesn’t want people to feel deprived because of their restrictions. Her forthcoming book, HUNGRY- Why I f*ucking eat, how I became honest with food, my body and myself shares her authentic journey of how she became honest with food, her body, and herself, and her forthcoming cookbook Sexy Nourishing Food comprises a combination of The Source Café classic favorite dishes along with her staple go-to dishes she enjoys making at home.

Listen to this episode to hear about Amber's path to body acceptance, what it means to eat for gut health, self-care, and how we should never shrink ourselves for others.

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In case you missed it, we’re airing one of our season’s most popular episodes again! Kale and Krunches creator Marlie Cohen is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Fitness Trainer... and also a mom! In this episode, she shares ways she’s trying to find balance in the middle of a pandemic while taking care of her kids (and while pregnant at the same time) with host Bianca Osbourne. Find out how she established a healthy relationship with food, current pregnancy cravings included; and what inspired her to create a career in wellness, as well as the advice she shares with clients today for finding the path to wellbeing.

This episode is brought to you by RISE Kombucha! Discover RISE Kombucha's Delicious Organic Drinks & Flavours.

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