Digesting Food Studies—Episode 115: Fisheries Diversification
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2477576/

Diversification is a survival strategy in many food systems, from biomes to economies to cuisine. This episode is about many of those things, including green sea urchins and the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation’s approach to fisheries and food-making.

The article in focus is Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis’s “Fishing amongst industrial ghosts: The challenges of green sea urchin diversification in Eastern Canada.” (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i1.680)

Plus, Alexia Moyer shares a story from the Montréal Biodome, and master student Adelle D’Urzo Paugh responds to Charlotte’s article with reflections on participatory co-learning and the Capitalocene.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#Fisheries
#StLawrence
#SeaUrchin
#Uni
#Gonads
#Diversification
#Fishing
#WolastoqiyikWahsipekukFirstNation
#Maqahamok
#Cacouna
#MontrealBiodome
#EspacePourLaVie
#Anthropocene
#Capitalocene
#FoodStudies
#Academia

photo: Hannah Robinson

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 114: Flexitarianism
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2469363/

Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian? As we learn from this episode’s guest author, Kelsey Speakman, flexitarianism is a complex space of food making, ethical and multispecies relationships, and marketing rhetoric.

Kelsey’s article on the subject, “Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances,” comes from Vol. 11, No. 4 of Canadian Food Studies (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.638). And sandwiching this meat-alternatives theme are Alexia Moyer on a powerful kitchen implement, and Milka Milicevic on the power of true alternatives in eating.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#Flexitarianism
#FoodAlternatives
#Eating
#Supermarkets
#KitchenMallet
#Meat
#Vegetarianism
#GeorgeBrownPolytechnic
#GBPolytech
#GBCollege
#HonoursBachelorOfFoodStudies
#TheSpaceMerchants
#FrederikPohl
#CyrilKornbluth
#FoodStudies
#Academia

photos: Alexia Moyer

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 114: Flexitarianism
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2469363/

Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian? As we learn from this episode’s guest author, Kelsey Speakman, flexitarianism is a complex space of food making, ethical and multispecies relationships, and marketing rhetoric.

Kelsey’s article on the subject, “Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances,” comes from Vol. 11, No. 4 of Canadian Food Studies (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.638). And sandwiching this meat-alternatives theme are Alexia Moyer on a powerful kitchen implement, and Milka Milicevic on the power of true alternatives in eating.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#Flexitarianism
#FoodAlternatives
#Eating
#Supermarkets
#KitchenMallet
#Meat
#Vegetarianism
#GeorgeBrownPolytechnic
#GBPolytech
#GBCollege
#HonoursBachelorOfFoodStudies
#TheSpaceMerchants
#FrederikPohl
#CyrilKornbluth
#FoodStudies
#Academia

photos: Alexia Moyer

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 113: Eating and Social Isolation
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2422624/

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? https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.220

Eating is both a unifier and divider in our food cultures, and the spaces in which we do it can both support connection-making and reinforce isolation. This episode focuses on an audio artwork by Mélanie Binette—a sound installation in a Montréal community restaurant called “Invité.e.s Invisible.s”—intended to help solo eaters connect.

Plus, Alexia Moyer shares two other soundscapes and their implications for sociability, while Samphe Ballamingie responds poetically to Mélanie’s artistic intervention.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodSystems
#Eating
#Art
#Isolation
#Society
#Commensality
#Soundscape
#MilieuDeNullePart
#LeChicRestoPop
#HochelagaMaisonneuve
#FoodStudies
#Academia
#FoodPodcast

photo: Patrick Ma

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 112: Centralization of Power in Food Systems

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2382014/

There’s a lot of power in food and food systems: care and nurturing, regeneration and resilience. The power to feed, to refuse food, and to transform landscapes. And then there’s petroleum, data, GMOs, and pesticides; financialization, tractors, and land-grabbing…

This episode explores how corporations and governments operate and control spaces of production and transformation, with articles from Vol. 2, No. 2 of CFS, which our guest, Jennifer Clapp, co–guest edited. (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2)

Alexia Moyer shares learnings from Brian Brett’s book, Trauma Farm, and PhD student Heidi Janes responds to a selection of CFS articles about corporate power.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodSystems
#Agriculture
#Farming
#Pesticides
#Fertilizer
#Tractors
#PrecisionAgriculture
#Financialization
#LandGrabbing
#Palestine
#Gaza
#Power
#Capitalism
#BrianBrett
#TraumaFarm
#Academia
#FoodPodcast

image: Johnson Martin, Pixabay

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 108: Un-learning and Re-Learning

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?

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2274516/

We start with an Amuse Bouche segment on the partial sharing of traditional knowledges, and then Alissa Overend and Ronak Rai talk about their article, “Un-learning and re-learning: Reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties” (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.649).

Finally, transdisciplinary food artist and researcher, Annika Walsh, adds her own flavor to the mix, with a deeply reflexive response to Alissa’s and Ronak’s text.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Knowledge
#Epistemology
#Ontology
#IndigenousKnowledge
#IndigenousElders
#Colonialism
#SettlerColonialism
#Berries
#Strawberries
#SaskatoonBerries
#Foraging
#Academia
#Reflexivity
#FoodPodcast

photo: Bonnie McDonald on Pixabay

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 111: Lunch Box Identities

What is “Canadian food” and how does its interpretation affect our identity and sense of belonging—especially in primary and secondary schools?

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2350341/

This episode unpacks the packed lunch, in particular those that the kids of first-generation immigrants bring to school. Two articles from Canadian Food Studies are covered, both co-written by Yukari Seko, “Unboxing the bento box” (Vol. 8, No. 3) and “Feeding children while Asian” (Vol. 12, No. 2). And in response, PhD student Shay Quinn offers up several perspectives on meaning-making, involving research participants in research, and arts-informed methodologies.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#SchoolLunch
#Lunchboxes
#SchoolFood
#FoodPrograms
#StudentSuccess
#PrimarySchools
#SecondarySchools
#SchoolBoards
#Hunger
#MentalHealth
#CulturalIdentity
#Families
#TheSixMillionDollarMan
#SteveAustin
#CareBears
#SchoolCafeterias
#FoodPodcast

photo: David Szanto

Concentré d’études sur l’alimentation (le podcast de la RCÉA)—épisode 107 : Les pesticides et la politique

C’est quoi ça dans ta bouche ? Des pesticides ? D’autres produits chimiques ? Fais attention à ce que tu manges !

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2231979/

Alors que la contestation mondiale contre les herbicides à base de glyphosate s'intensifie, il est temps que tout le monde se penche davantage sur notre (sur)utilisation des intrants agricoles. Le terrain est toutefois complexe, comme nous l'expliquent Marie-Hélène Bacon et Laure Gosselin, invitées de cet épisode. L'article phare de ce numéro est « Pesticides : Le Talon d'Achille des politiques alimentaires canadiennes et québécoises » (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.274), tiré du vol. 5, n° 3 de La RCÉA.

#ConcentréDÉtudesSurLAlimentation
#DigestingFoodStudies
#Pesticides
#Glyphosate
#IntrantsAgricoles
#Politique
#Alimentation
#SécuritéAlimentaire
#ÉtudesSurLAlimentation
#PodcastSurLAlimentation
#CREPPA
#MonsantoPapers

photo : Kath Clark/USC Canada

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 106: School Food Programs

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2210715/

With the creation of Canada’s National School Food Program, myriad questions, challenges, and opportunities arise. Student success, cultural identity, food provisioning, and economics are all at play. As Rachel Engler-Stringer tells us in this episode, ongoing research and reflection will be needed.

First, Alexia Moyer’s Amuse Bouche segment reveals a number of lessons—some more useful than others—from Saskatchewan’s early 1900s school food planning. And in the After Taste, Penelope Stam responds to the focus article, “The case for a Canadian national school food program” (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.260) from Vol. 5 No. 3 of Canadian Food Studies.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#SchoolFood
#FoodPrograms
#StudentSuccess
#PrimarySchools
#SecondarySchools
#SchoolBoards
#Hunger
#MentalHealth
#CulturalIdentity
#FoodSovereignty
#FoodSecurity
#FoodCulture
#SchoolCafeterias
#LunchLadies
#FoodPodcast

photo: Alexia Moyer

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 105: Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Although Indigenous food sovereignty has been attacked and eroded by multiple histories of colonial oppression, rebuilding it can happen—through intergenerational learning, land-based practices, and relationality.

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2185102/

Kaylee Michnik, talks about her article, “Moving Your Body, Soul, and Heart to Share and Harvest Food” from Vol. 8, No. 2 of Canadian Food Studies (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.446), including the roles we all play in reconciliation & decolonization. Courtney Vaughan offers a response to the text and its challenges. Starting it off is Alexia Moyer’s account of the tasty and tenuous history of camas cultivation by Coast Salish peoples.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Indigenous
#IndigenousFood
#IndigenousKnowledge
#CoastSalish
#LekwungenPeople
#FirstNations
#FoodSovereignty
#FoodSystems
#Decolonization
#HudsonsBayCompany
#Reconciliation
#Camas
#DeathCamas
#ZigadenousVenenosis
#FoodPodcast

Image: Jacques Gaimard on Pixabay

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 110: Feminist Food Studies

Feminist studies and food studies have a fascinating history of difference, alignment, and emergence. This episode covers some of that span, from a laborious recipe for baked rice pudding (without eggs…!) to a themed issue of Canadian Food Studies (Vol. 5 No. 1) that is dedicated to feminist food studies (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1). Lots of voices this week, including Jennifer Brady, Barbara Parker, Elaine Power, Liz Lovell, Steph Chartrand, and of course the inimitable Alexia Moyer.

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2173092/

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Feminism
#FeministStudies
#FoodSystems
#Gender
#Power
#SocialClass
#Racialization
#DomesticLabour
#Recipes
#HomeEconomics
#FoodWaste
#InfantFormula
#WomensWork
#FoodPodcast

Image: OpenClipart-Vectors on Pixabay

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 104: Infant Food Security

Whether you #breastfeed, feed with #babyformula, or do both, securing sustenance for newborns can be fraught. #Infant and #caregiver #foodsecurity is a multi-layered, multi-experiential reality, in the past and present. What will its future hold?

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2173092/

This episode features Lesley Frank on the “first food systems” of infant feeding, Natalia Alaniz-Salinas responding to Lesley’s article, “Finding Formula” (Vol. 5 No. 1 of CFS), and Alexia Moyer on the history of milk, including its price, positioning, and propaganda. Drink up!

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Infancy
#Caregivers
#Parenting
#InfantFoodSecurity
#BabyFormula
#Breastfeeding
#Milk
#FindingFormula
#FirstFoodSystems
#FoodHistory
#FoodSecurity
#Advertising
#Propoganda
#FoodInsecurity
#Gender
#WomensWork
#FoodPodcast

photo: Erik De Leon; visual effects: Natalie Doonan

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!

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2172998/

Writer, artist, and psychotherapist Susan Goldberg discusses her artwork, poem, and reflection piece, “Milk and Bread” (Vol. 12 No. 1 of Canadian Food Studies), and recent master’s graduate Caylie Warkentin weighs in with a perspective on material practice more generally. We touch on the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (horg.com), which documents and categorizes bread bag ties—in all seriousness AND silliness. And, as Alexia Moyer shares, there are some fascinating parallels between #gender and #cutlery to be explored. Sink your tines into that!

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodArt
#FoundArt
#FoodSystems
#Materiality
#Milk
#Bread
#BreadBagTies
#DomesticLabour
#Poetry
#HouseholdManagement
#Cutlery
#Tableware
#Gender
#WomensWork
#covid
#FoodPodcast

image: Susan Goldberg

Feeling questioning? Or maybe a little reflective? Take a look at some past responses to the CFS/RCÉA “Choux Questionnaire,” our riff on the somewhat more literary “Proust Questionnaire.” Our respondents include food scholars, activists, philosophers, and writers. (Oh, and ChatGPT. Not sure that was the best idea, but its responses certainly show some pretty 'artificial' intelligence.)

Bryan Dale: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i2.755
Joshna Maharaj: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i1.735
Lenore Newman: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i3.715
Greg de St. Maurice: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.701
ChatGPT: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.688
Geneviève Sicotte: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.667
Lisa Heldke: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.650

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Proust
#FoodCulture
#Reflexivity
#FoodJustice
#Philosophy
#InstitutionalFood
#ArtificialIntelligence
#Folklore
#Literature
#Literature

image: "Chinese Croquembouche" (2023) © Annika Walsh

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 109: Food Waste

Repurposing leftover Hallowe’en 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…

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2296101/

This episode tackles food waste, an issue as old as #domestication. Food scholar Tammara Soma shares perspectives from “Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada” (Vol. 9 No. 1 of Canadian Food Studies), and PhD student Dante Gbejewoh offers his response to the piece, encouraging listeners to leverage the article’s diagram about #closed-loop #foodsystems. Alexia Moyer sneaks us back to a long-titled #historical #cookbook on household management, including its implications for #gendered labour.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodWaste
#Upcycling
#Recycling
#Trash
#Cookbooks
#HouseholdManagement
#HomeEconomics
#Gender
#Labour
#WomensWork
#CanadianHistory
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems

image: David Szanto

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 102: Teaching about Food Studies

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2172786/

Learning about food and 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. It’s a full mind-body experience!

This episode features Jennifer Sumner and Michael Classens, two leaders in critical teaching and learning about food systems—and guest editors of the Food Pedagogies issue of Canadian Food Studies (Vol. 8 No. 4)… Alexia Moyer explores the kinds of school environments that support food learning before post-secondary education, and in the “After Taste,” Eric Schofield responds to “Toward a Common Understanding of Food Literacy,” by Kimberley Hernandez, Doris Gillis, Kathleen Kevany, and Sara Kirk.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Pedagogy
#TeachingAndLearning
#SchoolGardens
#Education
#FoodLiteracy
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems
#PaoloFreire
#FoodJustice

image: Lucy Godoy

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 101: Introducing Meat Studies.

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2172561/

Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores unite! Meat Studies has something for everyone (including #pescatarians, #vegans and #frugivores. But is meat a product, a process, or both?

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—and in the After Taste, grad student Emma Paisley responds to the article, “Meat politics at the dinner table” by Emily Kennedy, Shyon Baumann, and Josée Johnston.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#MeatStudies
#Veganism
#Vegetarianism
#PlantBasedMeat
#FoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 100: Welcome to Food Studies.
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2152655/

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems

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.

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

David Szanto
Alexia Moyer
Charles Z. Levkoe
Laurence Godin
Rachel Engler-Stringer

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

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/758

Announcing the new Canadian Food Studies podcast, “Digesting Food Studies”! Episodes range from #FoodJustice to #sustainability to intercultural identity, from the technologies of #agriculture to the relationships embedded in #Indigenous #foodways #DigestingFoodStudies

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/