Deconstructing Dinner Information

Deconstructing Dinner has been many things since it was created in 2006 but what has remained constant has been its commitment to expanding awareness of the origins of our food and sharing the potential for food to transform communities. Deconstructing Dinner (DD) was launched by Jon Steinman in 2006 as a weekly hour­-long radio show and podcast produced at Kootenay Co­op Radio (CJLY) in Nelson, British Columbia. By the end of 2010, DD was being rebroadcast on over 50 radio stations across Canada and the US and was ranked by iTunes as the most-listened-to food podcast in Canada. Shortly after the show went off the air, Steinman was nominated for a Jack Webster Award – British Columbia’s most prestigious awards for journalism. The show also received awards and recognition by the Canadian Farm Writers Federation (CFWF) and the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA). In 2011, a new DD project emerged between Jon Steinman, Declan O’Driscoll and Stornoway Communications. Deconstructing Dinner: Reconstructing our Food System was launched in 2013 as a six-episode television series and accompanying 45 short-form webisodes. The series continues to be broadcast across Canada on ichannel and is available on the series’ web site. The series won the Best of Canada award at the 2015 Taste Awards in Hollywood, CA. The Deconstructing Dinner Film Festival is another DD incarnation ­- created in 2012 as an annual documentary food film festival held in Nelson, BC. It's 2016 event featured 11 films over 5 days and plenty of good food and drink.