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

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

Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment

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

Growing Food, Sharing Culture at the Rainbow Community Garden in Winnipeg, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Article | Contributeur(s): Laura Lucas, Fabiana Li | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.439

The Rainbow Community Gardens in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a community project that supports immigrant and refugee families and helps them to grow their own food. The photos and accompanying text that make up this photo essay examine the role of food and community gardens as a means of expressing...

Beyond Health & Nutrition: Re-framing school food programs through integrated food pedagogies

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Article | Contributeur(s): Barbara Parker, Mario Koeppel | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.371

In this paper, we present findings from a community-based research project on school food environments in 50 elementary and high schools in a mid-sized city in Ontario, Canada. Our findings highlight that schools' privilege five intersecting domains in the school food environment: 1) health...

A Spatial analysis of population at risk of food insecurity using the voices from a Photovoice study: An exploratory mixed-methods approach

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Article | Contributeur(s): Mikiko Terashima, Catherine Hart, Patricia Williams | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.365

To better understand community-level impacts of the built environmental quality on residents with less economic resources to acquire food, it is fruitful to combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to the investigation. We explored how the level of spatial accessibility in communities...

“Ditch red meat and dairy, and don’t bother with local food”: The problem with universal dietary advice aiming to save the planet (and your health)

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Article | Contributeur(s): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.413

In recent years there have been increasing calls for “global dietary transition” in order to save the planet and improve human health. One troubling development associated with this is the attempt to delineate in universal terms what constitutes a sustainable and healthy diet. This perspective...

A problematic of plenty

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Alexia Moyer, Charles Z Levkoe, Alyson Holland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.475

Review of “Green meat? Sustaining eaters, animals, and the planet”

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Review | Contributeur(s): Rachel Mason | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.499

Edited by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene and Sarah J. Martin, Green Meat? brings together a diverse collection of perspectives to explore the relationships between meat and the environment, while tackling the thorny question of whether and how meat can be part of a sustainable diet.

Review of "Thinking with soils: Material politics and social theory"

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Review | Contributeur(s): Kaitlyn Duthie-Kannikkatt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.494

Drawing on the pioneering work of Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, the contributors to Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory argue that it is time for social scientists to deepen our own understanding of soil. We need to consider how to think with soils and recentre the set of...

Review of "Take back the tray: Revolutionizing food in hospitals, schools, and other institutions"

2025-03-19 22:03:21 | Review | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.472

This book fills a gap that is decades old—the problem with institutional food. Long the butt of jokes, complaints, and recriminations, institutional food has often represented the epitome of the worst that food can be: unhealthy, bland, colourless, placeless, and joyless—an afterthought that...

Review of "The long table cookbook: Plant-based recipes for optimal health—nourishing food for small and large gatherings."

2025-03-19 22:03:21 | Review | Contributeur(s): Japji Anna Bas | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.488

The Long Table Cookbook is a book on plant-based recipes for optimal health that offers recipes for small and large gatherings. Arriving, as it did, at the dawn of the pandemic era, presented obstacles and opportunities for the review of the book and its recipes. Applying principles of...

“I don’t want to say I’m broke”: Student experiences of food insecurity at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:20 | Article | Contributeur(s): Elaine Power, Julie Dietrich, Zoe Walter, Susan Belyea | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.423

Food insecurity, the inadequate or insecure access to food because of financial constraints, is an important public health concern, associated with poor physical and mental health. Recent research among post-secondary students shows that it also has consequences for academic performance; food...

Une approche territorialisée du système alimentaire: : le cas de la région de Québec

2025-03-19 22:03:20 | Article | Contributeur(s): Manon Boulianne, Carole Després, Patrick Mundler, Geneviève Parent, Véronique Provencher | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.453

De 2016 à 2019, une recherche collaborative impliquant des universitaires et des organisations partenaires a permis de caractériser le système alimentaire de la région de Québec. Cet article propose une analyse qui rend compte de la complexité de ce dernier. L’étude repose sur une approche...

Who are the cattails? Stories of Algonquin Anishinaabe Food Systems

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Report | Contributeur(s): Samantha Kaitlyn Patterson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.474

This narrative illustrates my evolving ontological and epistemological relations with food systems on Algonquin territory as an Algonquin woman and a registered dietitian. As dietitians, we study the function of food within our human bodies, but do not think about the who behind our...

Is the ‘obesity crisis’ really the health crisis of the food system? The ecological determinants of health for food system change

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Article | Contributeur(s): Sarah Elton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.447

Multilateral organizations and research institutions are increasingly calling for transformation of the industrial food system due to its negative health impacts, its contribution to climate change and the fact that the system fails to provide adequate food to more than 800 million people. A...

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

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

O is for open (as well as optimal, operable, optimistic, organic)

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Essay | Contributeur(s): David Szanto, Alexia Moyer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.513

Much as we might like to think of the academy as an enlightened domain of pure knowledge creation, it is inextricably linked to financial and corporate influences. The business of academic publishing is a complex ecosystem of actors, processes, expectations, and perversions. Many of us have...

On the Front Lines in Food Policy: Assessing the Role of Neighbourhoods for Food Systems Transformation in the Montreal Food Polity

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Anna-Liisa Aunio, Laurette Dube | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.493

This paper reports a multi-year design-based implementation research (DBIR) that examines practical issues, challenges, and innovations faced by the Montreal food polity in transforming food systems for alleviating insecurity in vulnerable populations. Community organizations in three...

Integrative Governance for Ecological Public Health: An Analysis of ‘Food Policy for Canada’ (2015-2019)

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Article | Contributeur(s): Peter Andree, Patricia Ballamingie, Mary Coulas | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.450

Normatively grounded in the ecological public health paradigm, this paper speaks to the role of public policy in addressing food and nutrition-related health challenges through a critical analysis of the 2019 Food Policy for Canada (FPC). We draw on primary data gathered through a SSHRC-funded...

Growing With Lady Flower Gardens: Governance in a Land-based Initiative Focused on Building Community, Well-being and Social Equity Through Food

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Article | Contributeur(s): Ashley M. Roszko, Mary A. Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.441

The local food sector has been gaining strong momentum in the province of Alberta but inclusiveness, social equity, and affordability remain issues of concern. Lady Flower Gardens (LFG) is a community-based initiative that is working to address these issues. Established in 2012 on private land...