Most of what you see in my videos is made in Canada and the USA, by small producers

 

It’s important to me to look at how and where products are made. I value locally made, independently owned, and with sustainable materials. I try to find LGBTQ+ and women-owned businesses to support.

Almost everything you see in food media is a choice that was made by the producers. There isn’t much that ends in a video or photo shoot by accident. I think it’s important to use those choices to showcase your values.

I go out of my way to include these products in my videos and photography. These are products I purchased with my own money from the makers and brands I love. My recommendation is to find the local-ish makers within your value system and support them if you can afford to, what they are doing is very hard.

Ceramic

  • Vicky Makes Things by Vicky Pratt Becker, hand-made in Toronto, ON
    Mise bowls, cake stand, bread bowl, mugs

  • Not Work Related by Sarah Hussaini – hand-made in Brooklyn, NY
    Mixing bowls, mugs, planters

  • Three Feet Mudworks by TJ Zafarana– hand-made in Portland, USA
    Salt pig, planters

  • YYY by Merida Anderson, hand-made in Montreal, QC
    Mixing bowls

  • Base Ceramics by Catalina Parra, hand-made in Brooklyn, NY
    Cake plates

  • East Fork Pottery, ethically mass produced in Asheville, NC
    Dinner plates

The items listed are what I feature in my videos from these vendors, not their full scope of work.

Wood

Metal

  • KNIFE, Toronto, ON
    Made in Japan knives, carbon steel pans, and cutting boards

  • Old Faithful Shop, Vancouver, BC
    Made in Japan pots and pans

Art

  • Molly Reeder, Richmond, VA
    The big beans print

  • Steven Restagno, Tavistock, ON
    The big gay art: Blindfold III (The Kiss)

  • Miles Stemp, San Francisco, CA
    Burnt All The Way Through
    Imagine Having Confidence
    Everything/Nothing

  • Ethel Voronkova, Brantford, ON
    Nothing But Silence     (which ironically is beside my coffee grinder and flour mill)

  • Sami Tsang, Toronto, ON
    My inner fat kid plate

Clothes

 

The cake serving platter by Vicky Makes Things. The serving plate is from Hasami (made in Japan).

The natural/orange mise bowls are from Vicky Makes Things. The striped bowl is from Not Work Related. The little brown bowl is from East Fork. The glass bowl with flowers is from Duralex (made in France!).

 

If you are a maker and have work you think I would like, I’d love to see it – but don’t send gifts or free products. I will return them. Please email me instead. If you are a brand, I only buy products made in countries where women have rights and I’m allowed to get married*.

*The exception to this is Japan, as I bought most of my made in Japan items before realizing that gay marriage is illegal. The more you know 🌈