A Review of Facing Catastrophe? Food Politics and the Ecological Crisis By Carl Boggs

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contributeur(s): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.552

In his most recent work, Facing Catastrophe, Boggs takes aim at the environmental movement and calls for radical reform. The author argues that political change matching the extent of the ecological problems we face is urgently needed, and that “there can be no routine, painless ‘greening’ of...

Une Recension du livre Diners, Dudes and Diets

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contributeur(s): Janie Perron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.549

Diners, Dudes and Diets by Emily Contois offers a unique opportunity for readers to deepen their understanding of the gendered nature of food in the historical context of the United States. In her book, Contois illustrates how the industry contributes to the construction of gender binaries to...

Review of Eat local, taste global: how ethnocultural food reaches our tables

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | Contributeur(s): Regan Zink | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.590

Eat Local, Taste Global: How Ethnocultural Food Reaches our Tables, by Glen C. Filson and Bamidele Adekunle, addresses the demand, availability, and production of ethnocultural vegetables in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). The book is centered around the three largest ethnic...

Jessica Fanzo, (2021). Can fixing dinner fix the planet? John Hopkins University Press, reviewed by Kathleen Kevany

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Contributeur(s): Kathleen May Kevany | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.595

Tasks undertaken at home have influence around the world. Eating patterns that citizens adopt or support have diverse impacts on the planet. What we fix for dinner may well help to fix the planet when lower emission foods, reduced waste, enhanced distribution, and equality are emphasized....

Review of First we eat: Food sovereignty north of 60

2025-03-19 22:13:02 | Contributeur(s): Catherine Littlefield, Patricia Ballamingie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.575

Suzanne Crocker’s 2020 film First we eat documents her and her family’s efforts to spend an entire year eating only food that can be grown, gathered, and hunted around Dawson City, Yukon, in the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. Living 300 km south of the Arctic Circle, Crocker’s...

Hunger: How food shaped the course of the First World War

2025-03-19 22:13:02 | Contributeur(s): Laurie Wadsworth | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.579

Blom’s thesis for the book involved the impact food supply had on the outcome of WWI. Information presented focused on food security of civilians and armed forces across nations. Detailed coverage of food production, distribution, storage and consumption is a strength of the book. Blom...

A world without soil: The past, present, and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributeur(s): Richard S. Bloomfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.644

Jo Handelsman’s text A world without soil: The past, present, and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet outlines the threats to global soil health from a scientific perspective and provides an empirical foundation for many in the social sciences or humanities who advocate for more...

Slow cooked: An unexpected life in food politics

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Contributeur(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 | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributeur(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 Growing and Eating Sustainably: Agroecology in Action

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Contributeur(s): Richard S. Bloomfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.692

Dana James and Evan Bowness’ book, Growing and eating sustainably: Agroecology in action, provides a portrayal of existing sites of a radically different food system than our present industrial one. The authors explore the origin of agroecology as a social movement, before expanding on the...

From greedy grocers to carbon taxes and everything in between: What do we think we know about food prices in Canada and how strong is the evidence?

2025-03-19 22:12:50 | Contributeur(s): Brian Pentz, Taylor Ehrlick, Ryan Katz-Rosene, Philip A Loring | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.690

In Canada, the task of explaining food prices falls to a handful of grey literature reports that shape media coverage and public understanding and carry significant political and policy influence. We performed an in-depth analysis of fifty-one of these influential reports, including...

Food by Jennifer Clapp

2025-03-19 22:04:02 | Contributeur(s): Christopher Yordy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.36

The economic shocks witnessed at the time of the global food price crisis of 2008 were a stress test for governance mechanisms in the global food economy. As the decisions at the top of the largest transnational food corporations are often shrouded in secrecy, the associated patterns of...

Gastronomie québécoise et patrimoine edited by Marie-Noëlle Aubertin and Geneviève Sicotte

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Contributeur(s): Gwenaëlle Reyt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.40

Comment le Québec est-il passé d’une identité culinaire quasi inexistante à une valorisation sociale importante de sa cuisine? Comment le pâté chinois et la poutine, l’agneau de Charlevoix et la volaille Chantecler de tradition ou encore le temps des sucres sont-ils devenus des emblèmes...

Growing Resistance by Emily Eaton

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Contributeur(s): Taarini Chopra | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.38

The short history of genetically modified (GM) crops in Canada has been defined by controversy, debates about health and environmental concerns, and deeply entrenched corporate control. The past fifteen years have seen numerous approvals of new GM crop varieties, while just a handful have been...

The Industrial Diet by Anthony Winson

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Contributeur(s): Julie Pilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.41

Anthony Winson, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, has written or co-authored several books that explore agriculture, food and the food system in both North and Central America. These books include: Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica...