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Canadian Association for Food Studies/ L’Association canadienne des études sur l’alimentation

https://foodstudies.info/

Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · Mar 4
Are you a #FoodStudies academic? Or a #FoodActivist? Dig #FoodScholarship? Into #OpenScholarship?

Let us know if you belong in this starter pack!

#Canada #Canadian #CanAg #Agriculture #Nutrition #FoodMovements #FoodPolitics #FoodSovereignty

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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
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November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 104: Infant Food Security

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November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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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!

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November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Feeling questioning? Or maybe a little reflective? Take a look at the “Choux Questionnaire,” our riff on the somewhat more literary “Proust Questionnaire.” Our respondents include food scholars, activists, philosophers, and writers. (Oh, and ChatGPT, for some pretty 'artificial' intelligence.)
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 109: Food Waste

Repurposing leftover Halloween candy as farm animal fodder? It may sound wild, but as you’ll hear in this #podcast, it’s just one odd recommendation within the complex hierarchies of dealing with food waste…

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Food Waste | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Tackling food waste is a big issue, particularly in wealthy countries. It emerges from all aspects of the food production-consumption web, implicating individual, municipal, regional, and global actor...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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
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October 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 102: Teaching about Food Studies

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Learning about food systems goes way beyond classroom lectures, involving #power and #justice, #reciprocity and #listening, getting your hands into #soil and getting your heart in a roil.
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How do we best learn about the complexities of food systems, particularly within the constraints of university-level courses? Jennifer Sumner and Michael Classens, the guest editors of the "Food Pedag...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Do you care about school food programs, food policies, and the dynamics of school lunches? If so, CFS has you covered! Check out these articles from our archives (2018–25), covering the intersections of food systems, school systems, policy, pedagogy, and procurement.

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Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
Canadian Food Studies is an open-access, online journal about food and food systems, published by the Canadian Association for Food Studies.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 101: Introducing Meat Studies.
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Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores unite! Meat Studies has something for everyone (including #pescatarians, #vegans and #frugivores. But is meat a product, a process, or both?
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Is meat a product, a process, or both? And what about plant-based “meat” and other meat-like foods? Élisabeth Abergel and Ryan Phillips, the guest editors of the Meat Studies themed section in Vol. 11...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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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...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 100: Welcome to Food Studies.
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#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems
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In this preview episode, we introduce how this podcast will help unpack research on food systems in a variety of ways. Host David Szanto talks with Alexia Moyer—the co-Managing Editor of the academic ...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Enjoy the full plenary: "FOUNDATIONS—Food studies in Indigenous Territories and Canada," here: youtu.be/2Wqic9XsQEA

#Food #IndigenousTerritories #Canada #FoodStudies #AfricanNovaScotians #Mikmaki
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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"Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" with @fuchsiadunlop.bsky.social from @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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#Food #FoodStudies #alimentaire #EtudesAlimentaires #FoodPolitics #PolitiqueAlimentaire
#TransitionAlimentaire #FoodTransition #AlimentationDurable #SustainableFood #EducationAlimentaire #FoodEducation #Agriculture #CAFS2026 #ACEA2026

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Save the date! 2026 Common Ground Food Forum Building a bigger table: Strengthening our relations June 15 - 19, 2026 Lakehead University Orillia Campus 500 University Avenue, Orillia, ON For the first time, key food networks are coming together! Canadian Association for Food Studies Food Communities Network Common Ground Network Food Secure Canada Look for our joint Call for Contributions in December! Contact conference organizers at commonground@dal.ca for more information. Enregistrez la date ! Forum Alimentaire Terrain d’Entente 2026 Élargir la table : renforcer nos relations 15 au 19 juin 2026 Université Lakehead Campus d’Orillia 500, avenue University, Orillia (Ontario) Pour la première fois, les principaux réseaux alimentaires s’unissent ! • Association canadienne des études sur l’alimentation • Réseau Communautés Nourricières • Terrain d’Entente • Réseau pour une alimentation durable Surveillez notre appel conjoint à contributions dès décembre ! Pour plus d’informations, contactez les organisateurs à commonground@dal.ca
October 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The food studies landscape is rich with scholars whose work expands our understanding of the world in which we live. Whose work has challenged and guided your own?

#Mentorship #Research #FoodStudies #FoodScholarship #SpeculativeHarvests #FoodResearch #HigherEd
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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What disciplinary perspective do you bring to CAFS?

#Food #FoodStudies #InterdisciplinaryResearch #TransdisciplinaryResearch #Research #FoodSystems #FoodSecurity #Sociology #Nutrition #Geography #PoliticalScience #Anthropology #History
October 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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What works do you include in the food studies canon?

#Food #FoodStudies #FoodScholarship #BooksAboutFood #CurrentlyReading #BlackFoodGeographies #FoodSystems #FoodJustice #WhiteSupremacy
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Who has inspired your scholarship?

#Food #FoodScholarship #FoodStudies #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodSystems #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Geography #EnvironmentalStudies #Sustainability
October 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Finn Meyer Cook, a long time CAFS member and VIU professor, in Palestine solidarity in Nanaimo continues as UN commission declares genocide in Gaza. Read the full article here: foodstudies.info/resources/co...

#Gaza #RightToFood #Palestine #Food
Screenshot from the article capturing Finn Meyer Cook in front of a bookshelf with text: VIU professor among hundreds of food scholars who sign letter to Prime Minister Social work professor Finn Meyer Cook is one of hundreds of food scholars who are calling on Canada to take economic and diplomatic action against Israel for causing widespread hunger in the Gaza Strip. Photo by Mick Sweetman / The Discourse. Framed with text “In the news, and Canadian Association for Food Studies, L'association canadienne des études sur l'alimentation.”
October 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Support open access food scholarship.
Promote critical, collaborative work in food and food systems.
Become a CAFS-ACEA member today!

#Food #FoodScholarship #FoodStudies #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics #Nutrition #Agriculture #OpenAccess #KnowledgeSharing

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October 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Creating learning alliances for flourishing food environmental futures

#Immigration #IndigenousKnowledge #LearningAlliances #Placemaking #FoodJustice #PublicLibraries #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalJustice

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Food existing in a web of ever-growing relationships. By Deborah Dutta. A word web showing the connections between the following words: MARKET, SEEDS, ECOLOGY, LAND, WATER, SOIL, HEALTH, LABOUR, LAND, ECONOMY, NUTRITION, LAND RIGHTS, STORIES, FOOD, CULTURE, RECIPES, KNOWLEDGE, SLOW FOOD, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, LIVESTOCK, and FARMING PRACTICES.
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Fostering innovation in Arctic food industries

Lisa F. Clark
Andrey Mineev
David Natcher

#Arctic #FoodSystems #Indigenous #Innovation #Policy #RegionalHubs #ValueChain

#OpenAccess
#KnowledgeSharing
#Food

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
September 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Toward a national school food program in Canada
Understanding current landscape and context

#Children #Diet #SchoolFood #Health #Equity #Nutrition #SchoolFoodProgram #NationalSchoolFoodProgram #Canada

#OpenAccess

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation

#Podcast #FoodPodcast #FoodStudies #AI #Editorial #DigestingFoodStudies #NewPodcast

#OpenAccess
#KnowledgeSharing
#Food

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. Text overlay: Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation (CFS/RCÉA), Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM