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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)

@foodstudies.ca

CAFS is a non-profit organization that promotes interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach related to food systems. We are no longer active on Bluesky. Please find us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or at https://foodstudies.info/.

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 2mo ago

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."

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 4mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 5mo ago

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

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 5mo ago

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

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 6mo ago

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.

Food Farm Talk @foodfarmtalk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hear two episodes of Digesting Food Studies podcast "Welcome to Food Studies" and "School Food Programs" from @foodstudies.ca Listen on: 📻CFRU 93.3 📅Feb 26 ⏰10am 🛜Hear anytime: rss.com/podcasts/dig... rss.com/podcasts/dig... #foodstudies @theontarion.bsky.social @arrellfoodinst.bsky.social

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 6mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 6mo ago

Showing that no discipline is an island, we connect Food Studies and Feminist Studies by way of a book-turned-bridge and a podcast-turned-boat. Plus: rice pudding! First, read "Food and Femininity" by Kate Cairns & Josée Johnston. (Read Jennifer Braun’s review of it here: doi.org/10.15353/cfs...)

Food and Femininity by Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 7mo ago

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

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 7mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 7mo ago

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.

Food Farm Talk @foodfarmtalk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Food Farm Talk is partnering with @foodstudies.ca to broadcast episodes of their "Digesting Food Studies" podcast on CFRU 93.3 FM over coming months. Stay tuned! 🚜🌱🍽️🥣 #foodstudies #cdnag #foodhistory @theontarion.bsky.social rss.com/podcasts/dig...

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 7mo ago

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

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 7mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 7mo ago

CAFS is hiring! L'ACÉA embauche ! CAFS is currently accepting applications for a new Administrator and Research Coordinator. All individuals who meet the qualifications are welcome to apply. See the job posting at: foodstudies.info/cafs-is-hiri.... The application deadline is January 30th, 2026.

CAFS is hiring! / L’ACÉA embauche !

CAFS is currently accepting applications for a new Administrator and Research Coordinator. We encourage all interested individuals who meet the qualifications to apply. See the description below or do...

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 7mo ago

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

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 8mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 8mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 8mo ago

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 112a: Toward 2026 (mini-episode) rss.com/podcasts/dig...

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As we slide into 2026, Digesting Food Studies is taking a break for a couple of weeks. But never fear, we have some other food and food-related shows to share! Listen on, or follow the links below to ...

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 8mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 8mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 8mo ago

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

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 9mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 9mo ago

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

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 9mo ago

Heads up, #InstitutionalFood and #SchoolFood researchers! Can a breakfast be secular? Does lunch have a religion? If you serve halal or kosher food to someone without their knowing it’s halal or kosher, is it? Here’s to injecting some critical food studies knowledge into our houses of government…

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 9mo ago

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.

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 9mo ago

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 111: Lunch Box Identities rss.com/podcasts/dig... What is “Canadian food”? And how does the dominant food culture affect our identities and sense of belonging—especially in our primary and secondary schools? In other words, what’s in your lunch box?

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Bringing food to school from home implicates a lot of issues: logistics, taste, temperature control, shame, pride, and carrying devices. This episode unpacks the packed lunch, in particular those that...

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Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 9mo ago

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

Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)@foodstudies.ca · 9mo ago

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.