Film Review: The Superfood Chain

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contribuidor(es): Fabiana Li | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.412

Film review of The Superfood Chain.

Recension de The Sociology of Food and Agriculture de Michael Carolan

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contribuidor(es): Serge-Olivier Rondeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.311

Écrit d’une manière claire et conçu comme une introduction pour les étudiant(es), le livre permet de voir l’étendue du champ de la SAA, de saisir son évolution, de cerner ses objets et de se familiariser avec les approches méthodologiques et les enjeux auxquels elle fait face. Dans une visée...

The Strawberry Squeeze - a review of Wilted: Chemicals, Pathogens and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contribuidor(es): Janette Haase | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.420

Book review of Julie Guthman's Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry 

Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contribuidor(es): Kristen Lowitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.411

Book review of Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations.

The Value in Community Gardens: A Return on Investment Analysis

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contribuidor(es): Susie Cochran, Leia Minaker | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.332

Food production in cities is increasingly regarded as one of the building blocks for sustainable urban living, particularly as the agricultural industry faces mounting ecological and economic constraints, and populations continue to concentrate in urban centers. While substantial research...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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 of Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contribuidor(es): Ryan J. Phillips | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.417

As part of Routledge’s ‘Studies in Food, Society, and the Environment’ series, Kenavy’s recent edited volume provides a timely look at plant-based eating, in both research and practice. Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability (2020) includes fourteen chapters divided into four...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Book Review: Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristen Lowitt, Eds. London and New York: Routledge.

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contribuidor(es): Mindy Jewell Price | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.434

Book review of Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristen Lowitt, Eds. London and New York: Routledge. It is easy to be discouraged by the ecological damages and social inequities caused by the contemporary...

Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contribuidor(es): Rebecca Ellis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.388

This review examines Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future, a new book about the activism of the National Farmers Union (NFU) over the past five decades. In this review I highlight the impact of the NFU in campaigns...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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...

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 | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Review of "A recipe for gentrification: Food, power, and resistance in the city"

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Contribuidor(es): Rachel Engler-Stringer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.512

The book, A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City is a well-crafted and useful contribution to the food environment, food access and food justice literatures. The premise of this edited book is to take a close look at the intersections between gentrification,...

Exploring experiences of food insecurity, stigma, social exclusion, and shame among women in high-income countries: A narrative review

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Contribuidor(es): Chloe Pineau, Patricia L Williams, Jennifer Brady, Madeleine Waddington, Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.473

In Canada, over 4.4 million people experience food insecurity, a serious public health issue characterized by inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints. Globally, women experience disproportionately high rates of food insecurity, which can be a highly stigmatizing...

Review of "Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm"

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Contribuidor(es): Stephanie Rutherford | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.519

Alex Blanchette's Porkopolis offers a compelling ethnography of pig life and death as part of the industrial food system. Blanchette challenges readers to think about factory farms not only as spaces of domination but also also sites where intimacy and exploitation unfold in complicated...

Review of Tudor Verse Satire

2023-06-29 18:54:24 | Contribuidor(es): Sister Geraldine Thompson