Cohérence des interventions gouvernementales pour prévenir l’insécurité alimentaire des ménages : Le cas du Québec

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Article | Contributor(s): Marie-Ève Gaboury-Bonhomme, Laurence Bastien, Etienne-Yusufu Kachaka, Laurence Godin, Laure Saulais, Ibrahima Bocoum | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.606

In Quebec, food insecurity is a public health issue. Despite the support of several ministries to community and private organizations fighting against food insecurity, it persists and has worsened with the pandemic of COVID-19. This article analyzes the coherence of government policies and...

Transitioning to a public-minded food system: Public food infrastructure's role in creating healthy communities

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Article | Contributor(s): Matilda Dipieri | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.611

A vision for a more sustainable, just, and health-promoting food system comes from scholars, activist organizations, and communities alike. However, creating infrastructure and implementing policy that allows for the transition to a healthy, community-minded system comes with significant...

Review of Canadian literary fare by Nathalie Cooke, Shelley Boyd, with Alexia Moyer

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Review | Contributor(s): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.669

This review looks at Canadian Literary Fare by Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd, with Alexia Moyer. The book gives an unconventional exploration of 'food voices' in Canadian literature. The authors examine the food narratives of celebrated Canadian writers, like Alice Munro, Eden Robinson, Fred...

Le questionnaire Choux de la Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Interview | Contributor(s): Genevieve Sicotte | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.667

A riff on the well-riffed Proust Questionnaire, the Canadian Food Studies Choux Questionnaire is meant to elicit a tasty and perhaps surprising experience, framed within a seemingly humble exterior. (And yes, some questions have a bit more craquelin than others.) Straightforward on their own,...

“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: : ArcticNet, 5th December 2022, Toronto, ON

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Article | Contributor(s): Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.643

This Commentary details key challenges and opportunities relating to the promotion of food security in Inuit Nunangat, discussed as part of the event “Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”, convened at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting on 5th December...

Transition, coherence, resilience and joy

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Essay | Contributor(s): Canadian Food Studies | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.652

These four nouns are taken out of the article titles on offer in this issue. Uncover within the systemic transitions taking place, the coherence required, the resilience that has emerged, and the joy that may be found in food production, distribution and consumption. With this issue also comes...

Review of Harvesting freedom: The life of a migrant worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Review | Contributor(s): Noura Nasser | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.656

The question of migration, land, labour, and food are intricately intertwined. In this book Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Farmworker in Canada is a living narrative that recounts life in St. Lucia, and gradually reveals the enmeshed connections of slavery, colonialism, and racial...

Review of Chocolate: How a New World commodity conquered Spanish literature by Erin Alice Cowling

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Review | Contributor(s): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.648

Chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain and it is the main subject of Cowling’s book. Within, Cowling discusses the material importance that chocolate had in the New World and how it was assimilated into European society as a commercial, medicinal, and sexual...

Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Article | Contributor(s): Michael Robidoux, Keira A. Loukes, Emalee A. Vandermale, Tegan J. Keil, Janice Cindy Gaudet | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.637

The challenges northern remote communities in Canada face acquiring regular access to affordable and healthy food have been well documented. Our Indigenous Health Research Group, made up of an informal network of researchers from universities across Canada, has partnered with northern...

Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

2025-03-19 22:12:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Alexa Rae Ferdinands, Oleg Lavriv, Mary Beckie, Maria Mayan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.627

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented attention and funding toward addressing household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada. In Edmonton, a virtual "City Table" was developed to coordinate the myriad of HFI responses and begin to explore and address systemic issues underlying...

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 | Article | 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...

Le territoire agroalimentaire en tant qu’attrait touristique au Québec: Réflexion à l’égard des représentations d’une destination gourmande à partir du concept de terroir

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Article | Contributor(s): Ronaldo Tavares de Souza, Pascale Marcotte, Laurent Bourdeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.612

Terroir products are characterized by the uniqueness of the territory where they are produced. This uniqueness is used to promote them, but it may also serve to trigger the interest of individuals in this territory. Starting in Europe and linked to wine, the concept of terroir is expanding all...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Review | 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,...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Review | 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...

with ChatGPT

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Interview | Contributor(s): David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.688

For this Choux Questionnaire, we turned to ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot. Given the challenges and opportunities that AI presents to academic practice, teaching, and writing, we thought it might be intriguing to use these responses as a means to interpret ChatGPT’s ‘perspectives’ on food...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Review | 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...

A window, a mountain, a scape

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Essay | Contributor(s): L. Sasha Gora | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.676

Food insecurity in books for children: A qualitative content analysis

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Article | 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...

Opportunities and challenges for school food programs in Canada: Lessons from the United States

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Article | Contributor(s): Amberley T. Ruetz, Janet Poppendieck | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.665

As Canada works towards developing a national school food program, it is timely to examine the lessons learned from the programs of other countries. Analyzing these insights can help Canada avoid key pitfalls and replicate promising practices in program design and implementation. The...

The framing of food in Canadian university classrooms: A preliminary analysis of undergraduate human nutrition sciences, dietetics, and food studies syllabi

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Article | Contributor(s): Andrea Bombak, Michelle Adams, Sierra Garofalo, Constance Russell, Emma Robinson, Barbara Parker, Natalie Riediger, Erin Cameron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.659

There are numerous “positivity” movements circulating such as sex positivity and body positivity that affect how sexuality and bodies are discussed, including in educational contexts. These movements have provided alternative discourses that challenge constructions of sexualities and bodies as...