Catherine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant's Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Anita Stewart | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.261

Based on broadly annotated recipes published in 1855, this historical treasure trove of food sourcing and cooking has been reworked for modern readers by editors Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas. These authors have been deeply immersed in Canadian culinary history for most of their careers,...

Conversations in Food Studies by Colin R. Anderson, Jennifer Brady, and Charles Z. Levkoe (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Contributor(s): Wayne Roberts | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.244

This inspiring collection of essays by mostly young and freshly minted scholars takes me back 50 years, to my own misspent youth during the 1960s and ’70s, when I was part of a social history gang eager to “rewrite history from the bottom up.” We wanted to ask new questions and use new...

En’owkin Centre Breastfeeding Art Expo

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Contributor(s): Karen Graham, Rhonda Camille, Tracey Kim Bonneau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.289

A unique Indigenous-focused Art Expo on the topic of breastfeeding was held at En’owkin Centre at Penticton Indian Band in October and November 2017. The En’owkin Centre is a nationally recognized Indigenous arts and training centre. This review highlights some of the art from the En’owkin...

Can we eat our way to a healthy and ecologically sustainable food system?

2025-03-19 22:03:36 | Contributor(s): Barbara Seed, Cecilia Rocha | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.258

The food system is a major contributor to climate change, biodiversity loss, eutrophication and deforestation. This article examines national dietary guidelines as a way to shift dietary patterns in the population toward diets that continue to promote health while being more ecologically...

Pesticides: Le Talon d’Achille des politiques alimentaires canadiennes et québécoises

2025-03-19 22:03:36 | Contributor(s): Marie-Hélène Bacon, Louise Vandelac, Sébastien Petrie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.274

Comment expliquer que le projet de politique alimentaire du Canada ignore le dossier des pesticides alors que la récente politique bioalimentaire du Québec évoque vaguement la question, mais sans engagements significatifs? Pourquoi évacuer ainsi l’analyse des enjeux et des effets sanitaires et...

From contracts to culture: Exploring how to leverage local, sustainable food purchasing by institutions for food systems change

2025-03-19 22:03:33 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Reynolds, Beth Hunter | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.285

In recent years, certain hospitals, schools, and campuses across Canada have shown that they can transform their practices to serve more local and sustainable food. These changes have often been led by visionary champions, and in some cases aided by supportive public policies or programs. Yet...

A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat by Eric Holt-Giménez

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.329

Book Review.

Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? by Philip H. Howard

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Contributor(s): Chloé Poitevin-DesRivières | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.209

book review

The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America by Virginia Sole-Smith

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Contributor(s): Meredith Bessey | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.364

Book Review

The Value in Community Gardens: A Return on Investment Analysis

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contributor(s): Susie Cochran, Leia Minaker | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.332

Food production in cities is increasingly regarded as one of the building blocks for sustainable urban living, particularly as the agricultural industry faces mounting ecological and economic constraints, and populations continue to concentrate in urban centers. While substantial research...

Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contributor(s): Kristen Lowitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.411

Book review of Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations.

The Strawberry Squeeze - a review of Wilted: Chemicals, Pathogens and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contributor(s): Janette Haase | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.420

Book review of Julie Guthman's Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry 

Film Review: The Superfood Chain

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contributor(s): Fabiana Li | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.412

Film review of The Superfood Chain.

Recension de The Sociology of Food and Agriculture de Michael Carolan

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contributor(s): Serge-Olivier Rondeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.311

Écrit d’une manière claire et conçu comme une introduction pour les étudiant(es), le livre permet de voir l’étendue du champ de la SAA, de saisir son évolution, de cerner ses objets et de se familiariser avec les approches méthodologiques et les enjeux auxquels elle fait face. Dans une visée...

Book Review: Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristen Lowitt, Eds. London and New York: Routledge.

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributor(s): Mindy Jewell Price | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.434

Book review of Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristen Lowitt, Eds. London and New York: Routledge. It is easy to be discouraged by the ecological damages and social inequities caused by the contemporary...

Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributor(s): Jennifer OConnor | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.385

The current exhibition at the Gardiner Museum, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, explores how eating, cooking, and dining were reimagined in England and France from the 1650s to the 1790s. Drawing from the Gardiner’s collection of ceramics as well as works on loan from other...

Mind Your Ps, Ask Your Qs: a review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributor(s): David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.444

  A book review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton, the companion publication to the Gardiner Museum exhibition, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. See this issue of CFS/RCÉA for Jennifer O'Connor's review of Savour. It is difficult not to like The King's Peas, the...

Book Review of Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributor(s): Ryan J. Phillips | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.417

As part of Routledge’s ‘Studies in Food, Society, and the Environment’ series, Kenavy’s recent edited volume provides a timely look at plant-based eating, in both research and practice. Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability (2020) includes fourteen chapters divided into four...

Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributor(s): Rebecca Ellis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.388

This review examines Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future, a new book about the activism of the National Farmers Union (NFU) over the past five decades. In this review I highlight the impact of the NFU in campaigns...

Book Review: Finance or Food? The role of cultures, values, and ethics in land use negotiations

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributor(s): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.451

Book Review of Finance or Food? The role of cultures, values, and ethics in land use negotiations, Hilde Bjorkhaug, Philip McMichael, and Bruce Muirhead. We have today a highly capitalized and complex agricultural system that contorts the global food system into a collection of financialized...