Folger Digital Texts

2023-05-11 21:20:40 | Contributor(s): Molly Barger

This is a review of Folger Digital Texts. 

Fonseca Pimentel, Eleonora. From Arcadia to Revolution: The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings. Ed. and trans. Verina R. Jones.

Contributor(s): Archie R. MacGregor

Fonte de Pietade: Blood Devotion and Blood Consumption in the Laudari ‘Illuminati’ and ‘Frondini’

Contributor(s): Marco Piana

The following article analyses episodes of blood devo­tion in two fourteenth-century laudari written by the members of the confraternity of the Disciplinati di Santo Stefano in Assisi, oth­erwise known as the ‘Frondini’ and ‘Illuminati’ laudari. Through the analysis of a selection of laude...

Food and Anthropology in the Early Works of Matilde Serao

Contributor(s): Daria Valentini

Food has long been considered by anthropologists to be an integral part of self-representation, culture, and identity. The present study investigates the early works of Matilde Serao, focusing on food imagery and culinary customs of the city of Naples. Serao’s fiction and journalistic...

Food Consumption in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Hamam and Luca Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore: A Gender Issue

Contributor(s): Patrizia Sambuco

Within the wide range of scholarly works on food studies, the topic of food and cinema has gained increasing attention in recent years. This article contributes to the discussion offering a gender per­spective in the analysis of Italian films. It examines cinematic represen­tations of food...

Food Counts: Food systems report cards, food sovereignty and the politics of indicators

2025-03-19 22:03:35 | Contributor(s): Charles Z. Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.277

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems recognized that "current systems will be held in place insofar as these systems continue to be measured in terms of what industrial agriculture is designed to deliver, at the expense of many other outcomes that really matter in...

Food discourses in Cape Breton: Community, economy, and ecological food practices

2025-03-19 22:03:47 | Contributor(s): Erna MacLeod | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.119

This project investigates ecological food practices on Cape Breton Island as legacies of traditional lifestyles and responses to the acceleration of global capitalism. I examine the multifarious discourses that frame ecological food practices such as organic gardening and farmers’ markets in...

Food for thought: How trade agreements impact the prospects for a national food policy

2025-03-19 22:03:35 | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Ann Smythe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.282

This article examines the prospect for a national food policy through the lens of trade agreements and the concept of policy space. It traces the shrinking of domestic policy space in recent decades as a result of trade agreements. Advocates such as Food Secure Canada seek a “coherent” food...

Food insecurity in books for children: A qualitative content analysis

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Contributor(s): Dian Day | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.654

Issues of class and poverty are largely absent from children’s fiction and from elementary school curricula, even though, in Canada, one in every five children live in food insecure households. This paper examines the limited number of middle grade children’s books that feature depictions of...

Food insecurity on campus: A community-engaged case study with student-led families at the University of British Columbia

2025-03-19 22:13:04 | Contributor(s): Claudia Paez-Varas, Gail Hammond | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.576

This paper draws from a community-engagement case study conducted at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. The study examines food insecurity experienced by student families. Research data was collected through quantitative and qualitative methods applied in a residence...

Food marketing and the regulation of children’s taste: On packaged foods, paratexts, and prohibitions

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Contributor(s): Charlene Elliott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.448

Playing with food has long been understood as a part of childhood, with adults placing rules around children’s eating. Over the past few decades, children’s imaginative food play has been commodified by the food industry—the play has been packaged and sold back to children, with fun appeals,...

Food Network’s food-career frenzy? An examination of students’ motivations to attend culinary school

2025-03-19 22:03:31 | Contributor(s): Ryan Whibbs, Mark Holmes | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.255

This research presents the findings of a year long study, undertaken between 2016 and 2017, seeking to understand the degree to which students are influenced to attend culinary school by food medias, social media, and the Food Network. The notion that food medias draw the majority of new cooks...

Food pedagogy for transformative social change

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Contributor(s): Chelsea Klinke, Gertrude Korkor Samar | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.485

The contemporary global agrarian regime has altered the patterns of food production, circulation, and consumption. Its efforts towards food security vis-á-vis capitalist modes of mechanized cultivation have produced large-scale climatic and socioeconomic ramifications, including the...

Food procurement in English-language Canadian public schools: Opportunities and challenges

2025-03-19 22:03:33 | Contributor(s): Shawna Holmes | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.265

This paper examines the changes to procurement for school food environments in Canada as a response to changes to nutrition regulations at the provincial level. Interviews with those working in school food environments across Canada revealed how changes to the nutrition requirements of foods...

Food providers’ experiences with a central procurement school snack program

2025-03-19 22:13:04 | Contributor(s): Mariam R Ismail, Jason A Gilliland, June I Matthews, Danielle S Battram | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.573

Universal, government-funded school food programs (SFPs) offer many benefits not only to the children they serve, but also to the communities that support them. To date, Canada does not have a national SFP. Thus, if one is to be considered, evaluations of current SFPs in a Canadian context are...

Food studies scholars can no longer ignore the rise of big data

2025-03-19 22:03:47 | Contributor(s): Kelly Bronson, Irena Knezevic | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.138

Our essay invites food scholars to consider how the recent technological developments are making ‘big data’ increasingly relevant to our field. We offer an overview of the how big data and related crowdsourcing of information are penetrating the production and marketing of food, and reflect on...

Food system resilience during COVID-19: The role of local producers in rural Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Contributor(s): Kelli Weinkauf, Tracy Everitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.594

Over the last 70 years, Canadian agriculture has shifted from many small farms that supplied local residents, to fewer large farms designed to maximize production, reduce cost, and target international markets. At present, small local food chains exist as a small fraction of the Canadian food...

Food system resilience tested: The impact of COVID-19 on a major node in North America’s produce supply chains

2025-03-19 22:12:55 | Contributor(s): Sarah Elton, Evan Fraser, Ruth Siew | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.626

At the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, many warned that the resilience of the global, industrial food system would be tested. We conducted regular interviews in 2020 with key actors at the Ontario Food Terminal, North America’s third largest produce wholesale market, to better understand...

Food, Pandemics, and the Anthropocene – On the necessity of food and agriculture change

2025-03-19 22:13:14 | Contributor(s): Marit Rosol, Christoph Rosol | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.532

The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates forcefully that human health, the well-being of animals, and planetary health must not be viewed in isolation—and that they all depend to a large extent on the ways in which we produce, process, trade, and consume food. In this perspective essay, we argue for...

Forbes and Independency

2023-06-15 18:45:54 | Contributor(s): Michael Finlayson