HEARTY is thoughtful and curious food and gardening writing that showcases andrea bennett’s range, combining personal essays, reporting, and hybrids of the two to study food as a source of pleasure, p...

Welcome to the Weekender on CBC North radio one. Broadcasting from Yellowknife with your host Bob Unger. In this hour you will hear from author Andrea Bennett about her new book  "Hearty: On Cooking, Eating, and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence", Vancouver teen Cameron Lee and his father Matthew talk about traveling to Whitehorse with hundreds of pieces of hockey equipment for Yukon hockey players, CBC's Shannon Scott speaks with Kitikmeot Heritage Society executive director Emily Angulalik and project lead Brendan Griebe about the opening of Cambridge Bay’s new cultural centre Kuugalaaq and wheelchair athlete Jessica Frotten about being inducted into the Regina Sport Hall of Fame.

Writer and journalist andrea bennett joins to talk about their new collection of essays, ""Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence" published by ECW Press.

With the arrival of the fall harvest comes a new book that gives us a little food for thought. It's called "Hearty : On Cooking, Eating, and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence." The book is a series of essays, many of them very personal, written by author Andrea Bennett.