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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 10/06/2026

Season 1 of the CFS/RCÉA podcast, "Digesting Food Studies"/"Concentré d'études sur l'alimentation" is now wrapped, but Season 2 is on its way! Find us on your favorite podcasting service or at rss.com/podcasts/dig...

The Digesting Food Studies cover art, featuring the title of the show over a white swoop and a green background, and the words "a food systems podcast from the editors of Canadian Food Studies."

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 16/04/2026

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 120: Carceral Food Systems rss.com/podcasts/dig... This episode considers carceral food systems and the roles food plays in expressing identity and liberty, as well as oppression and power.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 03/04/2026

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 119: Kids’ Lit and Food Insecurity rss.com/podcasts/dig...

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 20/03/2026

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 118: Reading Menus as History rss.com/podcasts/dig...

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 05/03/2026

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 116: Social Economy of Food rss.com/podcasts/dig... Sharing, gifting, and informal economies have been around forever, and they might be seeing a new resurgence that offers promise for the long-term.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 17/02/2026

Following the University of Regina Press’s tagline, “A Gathering of Many Voices,” we’ve pulled together two voices from their catalogue, offering possible research, teaching, and travel inspiration on or in the Northern Great Plains.

Cover of James Daschuk’s book, “Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life,” featuring the author name and title over a man with long hair, sitting cross-legged in the grass, his hands resting on his legs.

Cover of R. Grace Morgan’s book, “Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains,” featuring the author name and title, with images of the three named animals sitting behind their respective names.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 13/02/2026

The question remains, what does all of this have to do with a recipe for rice pudding? Inquiring minds like yours will definitely want to know… #FoodAndFemininity #FoodStudies #FeministStudies #Feminism #RicePudding #Interdisciplinary #TheHomeCookbook

Pictured below the title and author names is a pine table, upon which is placed a pair of green oven mitts and a long wooden spoon, bowl facing downward.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 05/02/2026

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 115: Fisheries Diversification rss.com/podcasts/dig... Something not so fishy is going on in the Gulf of St. Lawrence! Well, actually, it is pretty fishy, but in a good way: the diversification of a First Nations fishery… photo: Hannah Robinson

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 30/01/2026

Futures and histories collide! Is it science fiction? time travel? Nope, it’s Food Studies! Your reading pleasure this weekend = the future of food + a HISTORY of the future of food. (That is, a book review plus a companion media piece, as curated by us…)

Between the title, "The Third Plate," and the author name, "Dan Barber," are four, black line drawings on a pale blue background: a carrot with the word “soil” below it; a Canada goose with the word “land” below it; a fish with the word “sea” below it; and a halved tomato with the word “seed” below it.

Seemingly floating in mid-air on a blue background is a TV-dinner-style foil tray containing green beans, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, and a red, jelly-like substance. The depth of focus is shallow, giving the tray and food a blurry quality. The author name, Warren Belasco, is at the top of the image and the title, Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, is at the bottom.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 28/01/2026

A Shared Lunch, Part IV! Next to share lunch—which is not strictly speaking a lunch—is CFS author, Jen Brady. She writes, “Not being much of a lunch eater, I made a wrap with eggs and chili crisp for Second Breakfast, which I ate at my desk after getting my kids to school.” photo: Jennifer Brady

An office desk with two large computer screens, a wireless keyboard, and part of an open laptop at the left. Between the computer hardware is a mug and a white bowl, which contains a fried, folded wrap.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 23/01/2026

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 114: Flexitarianism rss.com/podcasts/dig... Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian? photos: Alexia Moyer

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 15/01/2026

A Shared Lunch, continued! Fieldwork yields so much more than data, as Jennifer Temmer shares with this mashup of Northern food and Mexican inspiration... "While this is not my current lunch, I wish it were!" says Temmer... photo: Jennifer Temmer

A homemade tortilla topped with guacamole, red meat, diced tomatoes, and onions sits on a white plate with a green foliage motif. To the right of the taco is a squeezed quarter of a lime.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 12/01/2026

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 113: Eating and Social Isolation rss.com/podcasts/dig... Do you eat alone, or with others? Is it by choice, or are your commensality options dictated by your social condition, your domestic situation, your access to shared space? photo: Patrick Ma

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 09/01/2026

Shared Lunch! Next up, Chloe Alexander, whose article in CFS addresses food loss and waste as it meets jurisdiction. How do the federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments in Canada address food loss and waste? canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf... photo: Chloe Alexander

On an oak wood tabletop, a shallow, robin’s-egg-blue pasta bowl, flecked with darker blue spots, is filled with strips of pasta topped with a tomato-based eggplant and mushroom sauce, a generous dollop of ricotta, and a sprinkling of parmesan cheese.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 08/01/2026

A Shared Lunch! Vol. 12 No. 3 of Canadian Food Studies is about being “in it” together, so we thought we’d follow that ethos and share our lunch with you… Or actually, our authors’ lunches. canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf... photo: Elaine Power

A lunch setting on a green tablecloth with small pink and purple flowers, including a wooden cutting board with cheese slices and apple wedges, and a white cloth napkin next to a white bowl filled with parsnip and carrot soup, topped with dried Aleppo chili.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 19/12/2025

CFS as food studies matchmaker? Yep! We’re putting together a book review and a memoir for your weekend reading pleasure… What are the true costs of an industrial food system? How can we get a better perspective by taking both an insider and outsider look at farming?

Cover image of Farmageddon with the title in white and subtitle in black on a green background, and above the title, an illustration of a Holstein cow with a bar code stamped across its left flank.

Cover image of Brian Brett’s Trauma Farm with the title across the centre of the page and, in the background, the door and wall of a rustic red barn. Sitting on a windowsill, in the centre right of the image, is a rooster, with white plumage and a red comb.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 17/12/2025

Check out Vol. 12, No. 3 of Canadian Food Studies (canadianfoodstudies.ca), now out! Six articles, a Choux Questionnaire, an editorial from Sara Edge, and beautiful cover art from illustrator and sustainable food systems consultant, Laurence Deschamps-Léger (laucolo.com).

Cover image of Volume 12, Number 3 of Canadian Food Studies, featuring the title of the journal and the issue title, "We're All(ium) in this Together", over an illustration of alliums including an onion, shallot, garlic, leek, green onion, scallion, and chive.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 11/12/2025

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 112: Centralization of Power in Food Systems rss.com/podcasts/dig... Do you ever wonder about the amount and varieties of power in food and food systems...? image: Johnson Martin on Pixabay

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 09/12/2025

As the fall 2025 university and college semester wraps up, what inspires you about teaching or learning food studies? Perhaps a Canadian Food Studies article on pedagogy? image: Lucy Godoy

A riff on the Rosie the Riveter poster, made of chocolate, showing a female chef in her whites and wearing a toque while brandishing a whisk, and the words “We Can Do It” over her head.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 05/12/2025

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 108: Un-learning and Re-Learning rss.com/podcasts/dig... Should all food knowledge be freely shared? When we learn in university contexts, what structures shape our understanding? What should we try to un-learn? To re-learn? To reimagine? photo: Bonnie McDonald

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 28/11/2025

Kids’ lit and food… L’alimentation et la littérature pour enfants… Food studies starts early! Il existe parfois des parallèles inattendus entre nos articles et nos critiques de livre par-delà le temps et les langues.

Image de couverture de Gastronomie québécoise et patrimoine. Le titre apparaît en haut, au-dessus d’une photographie d’une vaste collection soigneusement rangée de livres de cuisine historiques en français du Québec. Les noms des éditrices, Marie-Noëlle Aubertin et Geneviève Sicotte, figurent en dessous de la photographie, sur fond blanc.

Cover image of the children’s book, Shy Cat and the Stuff-the-Bus-Challenge, by Dian Day and Amanda white, with the title and authors’ names over an illustration of two young people, one holding a skateboard and the other walking a bicycle. A cat appears from the right margin holding a banner with the title of the book.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 25/11/2025

Concentré d’études sur l’alimentation (le podcast de la RCÉA)—épisode 107 : Les pesticides et la politique rss.com/podcasts/dig... C’est quoi ça dans ta bouche ? Des pesticides ? D’autres produits chimiques ? Fais attention à ce que tu manges ! photo : Kath Clark/USC Canada

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 21/11/2025

Then, pair it with "The Dorothy Perkins Canadian Garden Book." archive.org/details/McGi... More questions ensue: How does one stake up one’s tomatoes? What are the benefits of a cold frame? And is Dorothy Perkins the author’s real name?

Cover image of an archival copy of The Dorothy Perkins Canadian Garden Book, with a tattered yellow book jacket featuring a green halftone of a garden and the subtitle: "A Timely and Helpful Handbook for the Amateur Gardener. Written by a Canadian for Canadians, and adapted to our climatic conditions."

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 21/11/2025

How did Canadian housewives become “housesoldiers”? And can food actually win wars? Read on! Canadian Food Studies suggests you start with Jennifer Brady’s review of Ian Mosby’s first book, "Food Will Win The War: The Politics, Culture and Science of Food" (doi.org/10.15353/cfs...).

Cover image of Ian Mosby’s book, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front. At the centre of the page, on a teal-coloured medallion, is the black and white drawing of a woman dressed for foodwork. She is wearing an apron and a broad smile. Her left hand holds a wooden spoon while her right hand salutes the viewer.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 18/11/2025

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 105: Indigenous Food Sovereignty Although Indigenous food sovereignty has been attacked by multiple colonial histories, rebuilding it can happen—through intergenerational learning and land-based practices. rss.com/podcasts/dig... Image: Jacques Gaimard on Pixabay

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 14/11/2025

Then pair it with Annabel Soutar’s theatre play, Seeds, which brings genetically modified crops into the realm of documentary theatre. porteparole.org/en/plays/see... #FoodBooks #DocumentaryTheatre #GMOs #GeneticallyModifiedFoods #Wheat #Farming #Farmers #Agriculture #FoodPolitics #SeedSaving

Cover image of Emily Eaton’s book, Growing Resistance, with a light-filled photograph of a wheat field and the book title sitting at the horizon line between field and sky.

Cover image of Annabel Soutar’s play, Seeds, featuring an ominous skyscape over a field, and the title of the work set in a biohazard symbol at the centre of the image.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 11/11/2025

Read a good food book lately? Seen a food-art show or design expo? Marathoned a food doc? CFS is always looking for media and event reviews! Email (reviews [aht] canadian food studies [dawt] ca) or click on the “Submit a request” button at canadianfoodstudies.ca. image: David Szanto

An abstract artistic image with swirling beige, brown, white, and cream colours on a black background.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 07/11/2025

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 104: Infant Food Security rss.com/podcasts/dig... photo: Erik De Leon; visual effects: Natalie Doonan

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 06/11/2025

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 103: Food Art & Material Practice What can we learn about #foodsystems from making #art and getting our hands on the #materiality of food? Oh so very much! rss.com/podcasts/dig... image: Susan Goldberg

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 06/11/2025

Are you exploring Alternative Food Networks? You should check out the work of Dr. Alissa Overend! Alissa currently serves on the CAFS Board. Watch the webinar on their 2021 book here: youtu.be/QqwpGxtR8J8 #CAFS #Sociology #SocialTheory #IntersectionalFeminism #MediaAnalysis #DiscourseAnalysis

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 04/11/2025

Why a Choux Questionnaire? To elicit some tasty and surprising experiences, framed within a seemingly humble exterior—just like a choux pastry bun. Straightforward on their own, the queries combined start to form a celebratory pyramid of extravagance like a croquembouche.

A croquembouche on a purple backgrond—a pile of filled choux pastry buns held together with a sticky glaze, with a hand reaching forward holding a single bun.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 29/10/2025

Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity (by Jeffrey Pilcher), reviewed by Ethan Shapiro doi.org/10.15353/cfs... #FoodStudies #FoodBooks #Mennonites #InstitutionalFood #SchoolFood #HospitalFood #PrisonFood #CarceralFood #Beer #Hops #Brewing

Cover image of Jeffrey Pilcher’s book, Hopped Up, with the title in a banner across a pilsner glass of beer, a globe, and some hops.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 29/10/2025

Serving the Public: The Good Food Revolution in Schools, Hospitals and Prisons (by Kevin Morgan), reviewed by Jennifer Sumner doi.org/10.15353/cfs...

Cover image of Kevin Morgan’s book, Serving the Public, with the title in large letters on a red background and an illustrated orange fork holding a British pound symbol.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 29/10/2025

Looking for some rich, hearty, and satisfying food studies readings? Check out the latest book reviews from Canadian Food Studies! Eating Like a Mennonite: Food and Community Across Borders (by Marlene Epp), reviewed by Aqeel Ihsan doi.org/10.15353/cfs...

Cover image of Marlene Epp’s book, Eating Like a Mennonite, with abstract wooden spoon graphics and soft colours.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 27/10/2025

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 102: Teaching about Food Studies rss.com/podcasts/dig... #FoodLiteracy #FoodPodcast #FoodSystems #PaoloFreire #FoodJustice image: Lucy Godoy

An alternate version of the Rosie the Riveter poster (made out of chocolate), showing a female cook in a chef's toque, holding a red whisk in front of hanging pots and pans, the words "We Can Do It!" in a word bubble above.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 24/10/2025

And oh yeah, this too: www.canada.ca/en/employmen... #SchoolFood #SchoolLunch #FoodPolicy #FoodSystems photo: Alexia Moyer

A blue tray set with a water glass, orange napkin, fork, and plate of food with chick peas, radishes, devilled eggs, pickles, and tomatoes.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 21/10/2025

This episode features Élisabeth Abergel and Ryan Phillips, guest editors of the Meat Studies themed section in Vol. 11 No. 1 of Canadian Food Studies. Alexia Moyer talks about the tools we use when eating meat—and how they have evolved over the year...

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 20/10/2025

Are you concerned about the future of food studies in the era of artificial intelligence? We at Canadian Food Studies are, and would love to hear what you have to say about it. Check out our AI policy at canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

An image generated by ChatGPT showing a humanoid robot reading a printed academic journal titled Food Studies, and prompted with the terms "create an image of artificial intelligence running an academic journal about food studies called CFS/RCÉA".

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 20/10/2025

Step back in time and listen to the founding editor of Canadian Food Studies, Ellen Desjardins, talk about the creation of the CAFS journal! Plus, meet the CFS co-managing editor, Alexia Moyer, who shares a tasty tidbit from food humanities each episode, in her segment, the Amuse Bouche.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) @foodstudies.ca · 17/10/2025

Enjoy the full plenary: "FOUNDATIONS—Food studies in Indigenous Territories and Canada," here: youtu.be/2Wqic9XsQEA #Food #IndigenousTerritories #Canada #FoodStudies #AfricanNovaScotians #Mikmaki

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