No syllabus, no problem: Let’s co-create a world of food, agriculture, and society

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | Report | Contributor(s): David Connell | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.458

The intimate relation people have with food provides unique opportunities for teaching. In this field report, I will describe and reflect upon the method of student-centred learning I use in a first-year university course entitled Food, Agriculture & Society. The aim of the course is to...

Religious food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:11 | Essay | Contributor(s): Michel Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.514

This article reviews some of the ways in which food intersects with religion and argues that people’s religious food habits prepare them to critically engage the food they eat. Religious food guidance is presented through five categories: permanent food restrictions, temporary food...

‘Paki go home’: The story of racism in the Gerrard India Bazaar

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Essay | Contributor(s): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.556

For South Asian Canadians who migrated to Toronto in the 1970s, the only place for them to purchase and consume South Asian foodstuffs would have been in the area referred to as ‘Little India’, which later developed into what is referred to today as the Gerrard India Bazaar (GIB). Little India...

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...

Hedonistika-Montreal

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | 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...

Campus gardens: Food production or sense of place?

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Article | Contributor(s): Natalee Ridgeway, June Matthews | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.23

Campus gardens can provide opportunities for experiential learning and enhanced physical and mental health; however, they require substantial commitments of time, money, and effort. This formative evaluation explored the perspectives of a university population on the establishment of a campus...

Event Review of BPLTC III: Food Control

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Review | Contributor(s): Pamela Honor Tudge | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.154

In Eastern Bloc’s recent exhibition BPLTC 111: Food Control new media artists use digital technologies as both a form of aesthetic presentation and a kind of mimicry to critique the technologically driven industrial food system. This exhibition was the last of a three-part exhibition on...

How Canadians Communicate VI: Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy by Charlene Elliott (Ed.)

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Review | Contributor(s): Kathy Dobson, Fleur Esteron, Irena Knezevic, Agnes Malkinson, Scott Mitchell, Andrea Noriega, Chloe Poitevin DesRivieres, Julie Pasho, Antonella Pucci | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.182

Elliott’s collection brings communication studies to the core of food studies, and this makes it a long-overdue book. While not all authors are communication scholars, the range of topics covered in the book are representative of how enmeshed the study of food and the study of human...

Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Article | Contributor(s): Andrea M. Collins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.228

A number of global initiatives designed in recent years address global food security and aim to reduce the vulnerability of small-scale and peasant farmers in the face of expanded transnational investment in large-scale agriculture and land acquisition. While there have been efforts to...

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

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

Book Review.

Introduction to the special issue on the social and informal economy of food

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Essay | Contributor(s): Irena Knezevic, Charles Z. Levkoe, Phil Mount, Connie Nelson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.379

Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Review | 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Review | 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Article | 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,...

Gastronomic Practices and the Reshaping of Ethnic Identity in Italian-American Writing

Article | Contributor(s): Stefano Luconi

Queer Appetites: Embodied Desire in Monica Meneghetti’s What the Mouth Wants

Article | Contributor(s): Domenico A. Beneventi

Drawing upon José Esteban Mufioz’s notion of queer futurity, this article examines the links between memory, food, and sexuality in Monica Meneghetti’s What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging. The memoir depicts how embodiment and affect are imprinted in memory and recirculated...