Speaking with journalist Adam Popescu about MAHA supplement darling, shilajit. He talks about its traditional uses, how it’s been commodified for the male wellness industry, and whether it can be sustainably sourced for the increased Western demand. #shilajit www.anthrodish.com/episodes/ada...

183: How MAHA Testosterone Supplement Shilajit Plays into Masculine Wellness Myths with Adam Popescu — AnthroDish

Wellness as both a culture and industry tend to visually skew more feminine—or at least the critiques and cultural assessments of it do. In some ways, this also leads to a superficial exploration of w...

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new episode out this week with Sonali Menezes on her new book, Depression Cooking. She talks about structuring accessible recipes for navigating mental health, disabilities, and challenging phases of life, and establishing gentler relationships with food.     www.anthrodish.com/episodes/son...

182: Depression Cooking Under Capitalism with Sonali Menezes — AnthroDish

Scroll through social media these days, and you can easily get hit with a wave of overwhelming expectations around what you should be eating, how much you should be eating, how meals should be plated ...

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All new episode! I interviewed writer Ali Francis on her gorgeous new book, The Curious Lives of Vegetables. We talk about the global decline of vegetable biodiversity, colonial plant naming conventions, and how seed saving builds vibrant, flavourful food futures. www.anthrodish.com/episodes/ali...

181: What Can Vegetables Teach Us About the Future? with Ali Francis — AnthroDish

Industrialization has undoubtedly and profoundly shifted our relationship with food globally, and it can be hard to remember the work being done outside of commercialized growing to remain connected t...

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i’ve been podcasting and interviewing writers for 9 years, and it bothers me how often i am told by guests that i am one of few interviewers who has read the book… it is bare minimum prep in my eyes! so anyway if you work in media and need an interviewer who does the work and research, i'm your girl

reading this morning about a 16th century epileptic curing themselves by an all-milk diet. what a predicament for those of us who are lactose intolerant epileptics!

trump taking issue with canada being bilingual is funny given he barely has a grasp on the english language

any internet software/tool i've used to create podcast-adjacent workflows since 2018: we've got a BIG announcement coming, you'll never guess what it is! major changes! me: AI slop. it's AI slop every time.

my daughter very loudly in-store asked me "what's the canadian ketchup we get now that we don't get heinz anymore?!" and a bunch of people in the aisle starting clapping and smiling at her so politics remain on full display in the grocery store

despite, in my work, being an expert on food security and community health and well-being, someone putting together a client slide deck decided to 'ask the robots' to put the slides related to my work together, and for me to review it. in that same time i could have just put the slide together.

i’m concerned with how much “end of reading” discourse is here, because language is powerful and if people keep seeing that message rather than “the fight to help more kids read” or “how educators are teaching a generation struggling to read” i think makes a big cognitive difference

i just think it’s cruel for the wellness industry to choose sleep as their next focus, and it has nothing to do with not sleeping the last two years because of my son no sir

anytime i get a podcast guest pitch from a food product company, i let them know my policy is not doing any interviews with food product spokespeople, but i’d be happy to consider a podcast advertisement collaboration or social media campaign. and everytime they say no, only affirming my policy.

nothing like the prime minister of canada essentially confirming we’re abandoning climate targets to support oil and gas while citizens are getting evacuated out of raging forest fire zones. happy canada day i guess

being postpartum when algorithms are promoting appetite suppressing drugs and fitness influencers that think egg whites for everything is healthy/sustainable endeavour has been a bitch! on the newsletter this week i wrote about the body as a moral value sarahduignan.substack.com/p/two-years-...

two years postpartum

on the language of the body and fitness in the 2020s

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Reading magazines right now is like 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 TK in the age of ozempic 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 everyone you know is getting botox without you 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

walking to school with my daughter this morning, i had to have a very serious conversation about how she’s officially at the age, as a canadian, where she needs to know the difference between calling someone bud and buddy

regularly reminded i could never be a content creator, but especially after watching a “get ready with me to have my bloodwork drawn” video. i spent the first ten years of my life with weekly bloodwork and would never dream of bringing a camera along to document that illness experience

petition to officially change “nails on a chalkboard” to “nails on an influencer’s aluminum can used for content creation”

i just want to scream into the abyss about the fitness world’s current hyperfixation on caloric deficits

This weekend, @lapanique.bsky.social wrote a lament re the shuttering of yet another Toronto icon. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

It wasn’t just a bar. It was my unofficial living room. Why must change in Toronto take the good things?

New things are inevitable. But there is good in old things, too.

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i’ll never get over glossy pieces about tinned veg and fish having “moments” when that has forever and always been the foods that were affordable and stable for food banks, and for those of us who have grappled with poverty and food insecurity at points in our lives

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For Best Food Blog, I wrote about the rising number of parents using ChatGPT to help them cook, and what gets lost when optimization is prioritized at dinner www.bestfoodblog.net/when-chatgpt...

When ChatGPT Becomes Your Personal Chef

People are looking to AI for meal planning, nutrition guidance, and recipes that don’t quite hold up.

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omg, i was just doing some stats-lite for an upcoming newsletter about my podcast, and it confirmed that since adding video social media promotions, average monthly downloads are up 72% from the last season of audio-only. turns out audiences really need faces before they trust to listen!

In confronting the politics of food and eating disorders with nuance and urgency, this dialogue challenges feminist narratives that overly simplify eating disorders as solely reactions to patriarchal beauty standards. With Amber Husain on @anthrodish.bsky.social

AnthroDish: 179: Looking at How We Eat to Understand Power & Social Movements with Amber Husain

When it comes to talking about food, we often to choose to look at what people are eating rather than how. And it’s this distinction that today’s guest, Amber Husain, explores more fully in her new…

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it bothers me a lot that the news tab of a google search bar is now so far removed behind ai mode, shopping, and short videos… especially when i’m trying to fact check something i saw on social media.

petition to find a better descriptor outside of “enshittification of”

on the newsletter i’m exploring a topic i used to assign in my second-year food anthropology courses: tiktok foods and their meaning and value. when recipes go viral, what do we lose?what happens to cultural knowledge, recipes as story and instruction? sarahduignan.substack.com/p/tiktok-foods

tiktok foods

how video medium strips meaning from form

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What happens when we frame food and eating as a question rather than an answer? In this week's episode of AnthroDish, I speak with writer Amber Husain about her unique approach to explore power and culture through collective appetites. Listen: www.anthrodish.com/episodes/amb... #foodwriting

179: Looking at How We Eat to Understand Power & Social Movements with Amber Husain — AnthroDish

When it comes to talking about food, we often to choose to look at what people are eating rather than how. And it’s this distinction that today’s guest, Amber Husain, explores more fully in her new bo...

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canada is an unserious country in that there’s record breaking food insecurity and record breaking grocer profits the last six years, and yet we have people using their advocacy to push the house of commons for a “national butter tart day” #canpoli #foodinsecurity