Food and Society: 2nd Edition by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Review | Contributor(s): Phoebe Stephens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.215

No abstract required (book review).

Transformations revealed through food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Essay | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.197

This issue brings us food-related research and perspectives from across Canada, from Nunavut and the Northwest Territories to central Alberta, Kenora (Ontario), and Nova Scotia. A common thread weaves throughout this work: one of transformative change—either already in progress or still...

Getting to the core of the matter: The rise and fall of the Nova Scotia apple industry, 1862-1980

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Article | Contributor(s): Anika Roberts-Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.165

This article will apply food regime theory to an examination of the rise and fall of the apple industry in Nova Scotia between 1862 and 1980. From the 1860s until World War II, apples were a booming cross-Atlantic export business that continued the colonial bonds to Britain. But after the war,...

Land-Based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Article | Contributor(s): Sonia D. Wesche, Meagan Ann F. O'Hare-Gordon, Michael A. Robidoux, Courtney W. Mason | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.161

Food security in Canada’s North is complex, and there is no singular solution. We argue that land-based wild food programs are useful and effective in contributing to long-term food security, health and well-being for Indigenous communities in the context of changing environmental conditions....

The dilemma of scaling up local food initiatives: Is social infrastructure the essential ingredient?

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Article | Contributor(s): Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.146

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on and compare two responses to the challenge of scaling up local food initiatives.  Comparative case studies of the Good Food Box in the City of Edmonton and the Rimbey farmers’ market are used to examine the different strategies used to scale up...

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 | Review | 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,...

Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System by Pamela Mason and Tim Lang

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.250

This path-breaking book situates the thorny issue of diets firmly within what has been called the Anthropocene—the era of human-induced changes to the planet. Since many of these changes are associated with food production and consumption, the authors argue that we need to develop sustainable...

Perceptions and practice in an evolving food system

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Essay | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.238

No abstract.

Farm Stores in agriburbia: The roles of agricultural retail on the rural-urban fringe

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Article | Contributor(s): Lenore Newman, Lisa Jordan Powell, Jennifer Nickel, Dylan Anderson, Lea Jovanovic, Eileen Mendez, Barbara Mitchell, Kathryn Kelly-Freiberg | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.211

This investigation highlights the role of on-farm stores on the rural/urban fringe near Vancouver, Canada. Operators achieve higher economic return by targeting populations interested in local food and in agritourism, including customers from towns in the fringe and from the larger nearby...

Petits commerces de bouche et réseaux alimentaires alternatifs: un regard montréalais

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Article | Contributor(s): Alexandre Maltais | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.189

Cet article aborde les réseaux de distribution alimentaire alternatifs par une de leur leurs extrémités jusqu’ici négligée dans la littérature comme dans le débat public, les petits commerces de détail urbains. Ceux-ci se multiplient sur plusieurs rues commerçantes dans les grandes villes...

Ecological food practices and identity performance on Cape Breton Island

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Article | Contributor(s): Erna MacLeod | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.172

As globalization disrupts traditional industries and economies, investigations of localized responses to these disruptions can offer insights to guide strategies in regions facing similar challenges. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is one such location. Traditionally, the island’s economy was...

Organic vs. Local: Comparing individualist and collectivist motivations for “ethical” food consumption

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Article | Contributor(s): Shyon Baumann, Athena Engman, Emily Huddart-Kennedy, Josee Johnston | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.191

We extend prior research on “ethical” food consumption by examining how motivations can vary across demographic groups and across kinds of ethical foods simultaneously. Based on a survey of food shoppers in Toronto, we find that parents with children under the age of 5 are most likely to...

Mise en marché et certification de l’anguille argentée et de l’esturgeon noir de l’estuaire du St-Laurent: des « vendredis maigres » aux produits fins

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Article | Contributor(s): Sabrina Doyon | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.190

Les contours et les apports des programmes de certification ont été largement étudié dans le secteur agricole, mais demeurent à être étudiés plus en profondeur dans le secteur des pêcheries. Plus particulièrement, l’indication géographique protégée (IGP) est une certification encore peu...

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Article | Contributor(s): Wesley Tourangeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.208

It has been 20 years since Canada’s first commercially grown genetically modified (GM) crops were approved and debates over these contentious products continue to gain momentum. Literature exploring Canada’s GMO debates has yet to focus specifically on the discourse of pro-biotech public...

Student food insecurity at the University of Manitoba

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Article | Contributor(s): Meghan Entz, Joyce Slater, Annette Aurélie Desmarais | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.204

While rates of food insecurity among various sectors of Canadian population are well documented, food security among post-secondary students as a particularly vulnerable population has emerged in recent years as an area of research. Based on a survey of 548 students in the 2015/16 school year,...

Opportunities and spaces for change in food environments

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Essay | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.292

The contributions to this issue of Canadian Food Studies manifest a keen insight: with different media, methods, and voices, we continue to reimagine spaces for food—where and how we consume and grow food, and how we position it into an increasingly democratic, commensal domain. The more food...

Mapping the growing capacity of climate smart food in urban environments

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Article | Contributor(s): Gavin Schneider, Victoria Fast | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.242

The practice of urban agriculture (UA) is a unique food system model that localizes the production of sustainable, geographically appropriate food. The environmental benefits inherent in UA aligns with the emerging field of climate smart agriculture (CSA). However, the agro-industry focus of...

Insights from the Think&EatGreen@School Project: How a community-based action research project contributed to healthy and sustainable school food systems in Vancouver

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Report | Contributor(s): Alejandro Rojas, Jennifer Black, Elena Orrego, Gwen Chapman, Will Valley | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.225

From 2010 to 2016 the Think&EatGreen@School project worked to create healthy and sustainable school food systems in the Vancouver School Board. Using models of Community-Engaged Scholarship and Community-Based Action Research, we implemented diverse programmatic and monitoring activities...

Invisible guests: A sound installation in a Montréal community restaurant

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Article | Contributor(s): Melanie Binette | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.220

Invité.e.s invisibles (Invisible Guests) is a sound installation created in collaboration with a community restaurant that provides affordable meals to a disadvantaged population in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a former industrial neighbourhood in Montréal. Recorded conversations were made...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Review | 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...