 Danny Ramadan's Crooked Teeth memoir, Burdock and Co's Resin Menu and a new travel show hosted by Christa CoutureNXNW May 25/26, 2024 | The latest edition of the NXNW newsletter is here!
This weekend, we're doing some Record Keeping ahead of the Sound of Dragon Music Festival, catching up with the latest memoirs and mysteries from BC authors and closing out our May Trees series with a trip to Burdock and Co!
Looking for something from a previous show? Be sure to stop by our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on the show this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | CBC's Philip Owira returns for another edition of Phil's Corner, where we break the ice on Canucks, filming locations and a song from Victoria-based musician Poncho. | | | | | Erhu player and Sound of Dragon Festival founder Lan Tung joins us to do some Record Keeping. | | | | | | In the final entry of our May Trees series, chef Andrea Carlson spruces up Burdock and Co's menu with dishes created from foraged resins and other tree products. | | | | | Nelson author Roz Nay teases the murder and intrigue you can find in her new travel thriller, The Offing, which follows two women trapped on a sailboat in dangerous Australian waters. | | | | | Sunday | | | Loblaws signed Canada's grocery code of conduct. Costco and Walmart have not. Food economist Michael von Massow is here to explain what the code will mean for your grocery bill. | | | | | NXNW Word Guy Jonathan Berkowitz joins us to dispel some oft-repeated myths about etymology. | | | | | Musician, author and broadcaster Christa Couture centres accessibility as the host of the new AMI travel series Postcards From... | | | | | Award-winning author Danny Ramadan taps into both vulnerability and strength in Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir. | | | | | | | | | Trees - Burdock and Co | | | To wrap up our May Trees series, NXNW's Margaret Gallagher visited the Burdock and Co restaurant in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. For over 10 years, their use of locally sourced and foraged ingredients have earned them multiple awards, including a Michelin Star in 2022 and 2023.
Owner and chef Andrea Carlson takes us through a special resin-inspired menu called "Gathering Resins Under a Budding Moon," and shares the many ways she uses trees in her kitchen, from blossoms, pollen, and more. | | |  | Andrea Carlson at the Burdock and Co storefront | | | | | | | Trusting readers with vulnerability in "Crooked Teeth" | | | Writing a memoir is an act of vulnerability and strength.
This week on NXNW, award-winning author Danny Ramadan delves into loss, love, and chosen family with his new book Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir. We'll hear about his journey from Syria to Vancouver, the return to his early years, and why it felt like the right time to write a memoir.
Published by Viking Canada, Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir is available wherever you shop for books. | | |  | Danny Ramadan in the NXNW studio | | | | | | | Record Keeping with Lan Tung | | | The 6th annual Sound of Dragon Music Festival is underway until May 26. It's a genre-smashing intercultural music festival with roots in Chinese culture. Lan Tung is the festival's founder and artistic director, as well as one of its key performers. And before the festival wraps up, she joins us for some Record Keeping! We'll hear about the inspiration behind Sound of Dragon, how she began playing the erhu, and what people can expect at the 6th annual festival.
These are the songs that continue to inspire Lan Tung:
A song from your youth?
Birds Singing in the Mountains by Tianhua Liu.
A song you keep coming back to?
Oriole by the Sound of Dragon Ensemble.
A song you're listening to right now?
33 Gobi Magtaal by Anand Avirmed, Oktoecho, and the Orchid Ensemble. | | |  | Lan Tung with the erhu (Photo: Nenad Stevanovic) | | | | | | | In case you missed it... | | | Last week on NXNW, we paid a visit to Mount Pleasant Furniture, one of Vancouver's largest prop houses. Curator Paul Wong and proprietor Leslie Madsen took us through the items that inspired the Griffin Arts Projects exhibit The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects (May 18 - Aug. 18).
Stream this interview via CBC Listen.
Read more about The Prop House on CBC.
We'd also like to congratulate Paul Wong, who recently won the Reel Asian International Film Festival's 2024 Fire Horse Award! | | | | | Thanks for listening! | Have comments or suggestions you'd like to share? Email us!
Jeremy Ratt, editor | | | | | |
