The state of post-secondary food studies pedagogy in Canada: An exploration of philosophical and normative underpinnings

2025-03-19 22:13:19 | Article | Contributor(s): Phoebe Stephens, Lucy Hinton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.468

To date, there has been little empirical research on how food studies pedagogy has developed in Canada. Yet, across Canada, more and more postsecondary institutions are offering food studies in formalized programs and individual courses to undergraduate students. This paper contributes to the...

Opportunities and Challenges of Developing a Culinary Food Studies Bachelor’s Degree

2025-03-19 22:13:17 | Report | Contributor(s): Caitlin Michelle Scott, Lori Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.463

Although Food Studies has been acknowledged as a distinctive field in Canada for almost two decades, until now there has not been an undergraduate degree in Food Studies in this country. This is changing with the development of Canada’s first Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Food Studies (BFS) at...

Slow cooked: An unexpected life in food politics

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.640

This lively autobiography details Marion Nestle’s life-long engagement with food, particularly the tumultuous politics that inevitably accompany this central aspect of human life. As the founder of the interdiscipline of food studies, she describes her early life in academia, her work with the...

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

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...

“Ways of knowing” in food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Essay | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.76

What do we mean by food studies? Is it a distinct field or not, and what might it encompass? This issue starts, poignantly, with a commentary that summarizes some intense deliberations on these questions at CAFS 2014, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Food Studies. The authors...

Borders, boundaries, and becoming food studies: Looking back, pushing forward

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Brady, Charles Z Levkoe, David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.56

On May 25, 2014, at the ninth annual assembly of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), we (the authors) organized a plenary panel that assembled a number of leading food scholars from across North America to reflect on the current state of food studies. This commentary brings...

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

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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...

Finding formula: Community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Article | Contributor(s): Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.230

This paper reports on qualitative research concerning community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity. It explores this topic against the backdrop of neo-liberal social welfare approaches that shape gendered food work within food insecurity...

Looking back on food studies in 2020-2021 in so-called Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:14 | Article | Contributor(s): Amanda Wilson, Meredith Bessey, Jennifer Brady, Michael Classens, Kirsten Lee, Charles Levkoe, Jennifer Marshman, Tabitha Martens, Sarah-Louise Ruder, Phoebe Stephens, Tammara Soma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.520

In this collectively drafted Commentary, we offer some reflections on the past year for CAFS (Canadian Association for Food Stuides), and the state of food studies in general. Note: this is a modified version of the 2021 CAFS Presidential Address, given at the joint CAFS/ASFS/AFHVS/SAFN...