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TRACK & FOOD PODCAST // Livlite’s Grace Kennedy Dishes on Doing Business in Weird Times

Welcome to the Track & Food podcast. Host Jamie Mah is a writer, bartender and sommelier in beautiful Vancouver, BC. With co-host Mickey McLeod, they take regular deep dives into everything food and culture in the city and around the globe.

Image via Instagram / @livliteco

In this episode we were excited to finally record again (Jamie got sick with Covid for 3 weeks) and chat with Grace Kennedy. She’s the owner of Livlite, Vancouver’s newest zero waste grocery delivery company. Having only been around since August of 2020, we were curious to hear why she’d open during these hard times and how she got Livlite off the ground. We were also curious about the logistics of running a zero waste business, dealing with suppliers, and much much more. Grace was honest, funny and candid. We learned plenty with this podcast and loved exploring her business concept.

Catching Up with James Iranzad and James Langford-Smith

From a provocative argument about screen addiction and alcohol consumption, to making our city a global beverage destination; plus the awards/lists season is in full swing! Jamie Mah enlists two long-time show regulars for a proper catch-up conversation.

Rooted in What? : Liz Carlisle and Aubrey Streit Krug Give the Lowdown on Perennial Agriculture

Host Jamie Mah is joined by the scholars and co-editors of a new collection from The Land Institute and UC Santa Barbara that asks a deceptively simple question: what would agriculture look like if we stopped starting over every year?

Understanding the Lives of Migrant Workers with Marcello Di Cintio

In this episode, Jamie Mah speaks with the Canadian author and journalist about his 2025 book, which confronts the systemic exploitation built directly into Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

So You Want to Open a Bar?: With Andrew Kong, Max Curzon-Price, James Iranzad & Dallah El-Chami

"There's no roadmap for opening a bar these days." But Jamie Mah claims that this recent conversation comes close!