Review of Ultra-processed people: Why we can’t stop eating food that isn’t food

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.684

Given the ubiquity of UPF, this book fills a vital gap in our knowledge. Thankfully, it is easy to read, combining research and interviews with personal anecdotes and amusing glimpses of van Tulleken family life. For those of us involved in food studies, the book adds an extra layer of...

Distasteful: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry - Showcasing the Dark Side of Food Service

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributor(s): Stefanie Foster | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.675

A review of Annika Lusis's contemporary art piece, Distasteful: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry , presented as part of the Exploration Gallery at the 2023 Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) Conference. 

Une critique de l’œuvre d’art contemporain d’Annika Lusis,...

Intersections of race, COVID-19 pandemic, and food security in Black identifying Canadian households: A scoping review

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributor(s): Keji Mori, Elizabeth Onyango | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.630

Although studies have identified food insecurity as a racialized inequity issue disproportionately affecting Black identifying Canadians, research exploring how anti-Black racism across multiple systems create inequities including increased risk for food insecurity among African Caribbean...

Review of Growing and Eating Sustainably: Agroecology in Action

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Contributor(s): Richard S. Bloomfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.692

Dana James and Evan Bowness’ book, Growing and eating sustainably: Agroecology in action, provides a portrayal of existing sites of a radically different food system than our present industrial one. The authors explore the origin of agroecology as a social movement, before expanding on the...

From greedy grocers to carbon taxes and everything in between: What do we think we know about food prices in Canada and how strong is the evidence?

2025-03-19 22:12:50 | Contributor(s): Brian Pentz, Taylor Ehrlick, Ryan Katz-Rosene, Philip A Loring | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.690

In Canada, the task of explaining food prices falls to a handful of grey literature reports that shape media coverage and public understanding and carry significant political and policy influence. We performed an in-depth analysis of fifty-one of these influential reports, including...

Food by Jennifer Clapp

2025-03-19 22:04:02 | Contributor(s): Christopher Yordy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.36

The economic shocks witnessed at the time of the global food price crisis of 2008 were a stress test for governance mechanisms in the global food economy. As the decisions at the top of the largest transnational food corporations are often shrouded in secrecy, the associated patterns of...

Gastronomie québécoise et patrimoine edited by Marie-Noëlle Aubertin and Geneviève Sicotte

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Contributor(s): Gwenaëlle Reyt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.40

Comment le Québec est-il passé d’une identité culinaire quasi inexistante à une valorisation sociale importante de sa cuisine? Comment le pâté chinois et la poutine, l’agneau de Charlevoix et la volaille Chantecler de tradition ou encore le temps des sucres sont-ils devenus des emblèmes...

The Industrial Diet by Anthony Winson

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Contributor(s): Julie Pilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.41

Anthony Winson, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, has written or co-authored several books that explore agriculture, food and the food system in both North and Central America. These books include: Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica...

Growing Resistance by Emily Eaton

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Contributor(s): Taarini Chopra | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.38

The short history of genetically modified (GM) crops in Canada has been defined by controversy, debates about health and environmental concerns, and deeply entrenched corporate control. The past fifteen years have seen numerous approvals of new GM crop varieties, while just a handful have been...

The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Agriculture

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributor(s): Haroon Akram-Lodhi | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.59

When global food prices spiked upwards in 2007, the popular press explained the spike, in part, by rising demand for meat in rapidly-growing ‘emerging markets’ such as India and South Africa. Such an explanation was palpably wrong: people in rich countries consume more than three times as much...

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributor(s): Bradley C Hiebert | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.51

At a time when Indigenous hunger and strife is gaining public attention in Canada, James Daschuk’s book Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life provides a necessary glimpse into the issue’s deep-seated roots. Now a professor at University of Regina...

Hedonistika-Montreal

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributor(s): Pamela Honor Tudge | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.54

When food, art, and machines clash in a gallery you have Hedonistika. Part food and part robotic exhibition curators Simon Laroche and Jane Tingley tackle the connections between food and technology with the aesthetics of digital art. On offer was a 3D printer providing you with an edible...

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributor(s): Rita Hansen Sterne | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57

Food systems include many issues interconnected through complex relationships. Some writers examine one part of the food system in depth but—from my perspective as a management student—a strength of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat is that it examines food systems by systematically...

The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, food and social change

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Braun | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.58

There is no shortage of books, magazines, lifestyle shows, and academic texts that have something to say about what, where, how, and with whom we should eat. In his book The Politics of the Pantry, Michael Mikulak critically engages with this storied food, a genre of literature, film, and new...

Seasonal workers in Mediterranean agriculture: The social costs of eating fresh by Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributor(s): Anelyse Margaret Weiler | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.61

One of the most common justifications for maintaining low-paid, precarious conditions for farm workers is that while farmers are being squeezed by globalized competition, economic turmoil and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, labour remains one of the few costs they can control....

Alternative agrifood movements: Patterns of convergence and divergence by Douglas, H. Constance, Marie-Christine Renard, and Marta G. Rivera-Ferre (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributor(s): Theresa Schumilas | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.64

The introduction to this volume offers a concise overview of the history and state of AAFN scholarship, making it a great early read for newcomers to the field. Drawing together experiences of global South food justice movements and global North alternative food movements is welcomed and a...

Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Brady | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.46

When most of us think of Canadian history, particularly Canada’s involvement in the Second World War, it is unlikely that food is what first comes to mind. However, Ian Mosby’s new—and first—book, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front, invites...

Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future by Gavin Fridell

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributor(s): Geoff Tansey | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.48

A long, long time ago, in a world where ‘free trade’ market fundamentalism was not the only economic religion, I helped start a journal called Food Policy—economics, planning and politics of food and agriculture. Well, actually, not that long ago, in the mid 1970s. It just seems a world away....

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributor(s): Sarah J Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.47

It is hard to avoid the question of the future of food these days. Filmmakers, scholars, activists and book authors are fretting over what is to be done. Joining the fray is Dan Barber, ‘chef activist’ at Blue Hill Restaurant at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico...

Standards as a commons: Private agri-food standards as governance for the 99 percent

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.30

Private agri-food standards have emerged in response to the constraints imposed on the role of the state under the influence of neoliberalism. These standards reflect the ongoing ‘value wars’ between the money code of value and the life code of value (McMurtry 2002). While some private...