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...and guest editor Irena Knezevic talks about “The social and informal economy of food” issue of Canadian Food Studies. (doi.org/10.15353/cfs...).

Finally, Christophe Dubois shares his thoughts on social gastronomy and Mary Anne Martin’s use of feminist theory to explore urban agriculture.

This episode helps re-think and reorient ourselves towards creating integrated value exchanges beyond just the financial kind. Alexia Moyer provides gifts from Sandro Botticelli and Catherine Parr Traill...

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

Hear two episodes of Digesting Food Studies podcast "Welcome to Food Studies" and "School Food Programs" from @foodstudies.ca

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Beaver, Bison, Horse As one of North America’s most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for millennia. Among these, Indigenous bonds to beavers, bison, and h...

Then, pair it with a dissertation-turned-monograph from 30 years ago, and now in print. R. Grace Morgan’s Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains includes a foreword by none other James Daschuk. uofrpress.ca/Books/B/Beav...

Start with James Daschuk’s "Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life," reviewed by Bradley C. Hiebert in Vol. 1, No, 2 of Canadian Food Studies: doi.org/10.15353/cfs...

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.

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.

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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.

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…

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Then, listen to the Feminist Food Studies episode of the CFS podcast, Digesting Food Studies (episode 10). Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/dig...

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...)

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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.

The Canadian Food Studies publication in focus is Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis’s “Fishing amongst industrial ghosts: The challenges of green sea urchin diversification in Eastern Canada,” from Vol. 12, No. 1 (2025). (doi.org/10.15353/cfs...)

Diversification is a survival strategy that applies to many aspects of 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.

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Digesting Food Studies—Episode 115: Fisheries Diversification
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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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Focusing on future backwards is Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, by Warren Belasco. While Barber projects forwards, Belasco looks at how past forecasters proposed futures over the last two hundred years. How often do we repeat ourselves?

Our first featured future is Sarah J. Martin’s review of The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, in which chef Dan Barber imagines a meal in which taste and sustainability come together on a single plate. (CFS Vol. 1 No. 2 [2014]): doi.org/10.15353/cfs...

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.

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…)

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Brady’s photograph exemplifies the working lunch, or Second Breakfast, rather. She pairs her eggs with work that explores “newcomers’ experiences and meanings of accessing culturally appropriate food” (Bessey et al., p.113).

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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

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! 🚜🌱🍽️🥣

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“Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances,” comes from Vol. 11, No. 4 of CFS (doi.org/10.15353/cfs...). 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.

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.

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Digesting Food Studies—Episode 114: Flexitarianism
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Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian?

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