The no-nonsense guide to world food: New edition by Wayne Roberts

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Contribuidor(es): Jenelle Regnier-Davies, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.74

For many, the world of food is complicated and riddled with confusion and misinformation. The food system has become so globalized and convoluted that it has become difficult for even the most conscientious reader or eater to feel adequately informed. Wayne Roberts’ No-Nonsense Guide to World...

Standards as a commons: Private agri-food standards as governance for the 99 percent

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Contribuidor(es): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.30

Private agri-food standards have emerged in response to the constraints imposed on the role of the state under the influence of neoliberalism. These standards reflect the ongoing ‘value wars’ between the money code of value and the life code of value (McMurtry 2002). While some private...

The art of natural cheesemaking by David Asher

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contribuidor(es): Christopher Yap | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.157

Cheese wasn’t designed. Cheeses were, and are, products of specific geographical, economic, ecological, and cultural circumstances. And so in the history of cheesemaking we see the history of agriculture, of trade, of places, and people. The countless cheeses—each made with only milk, rennet,...

Community Review: A little regulatory pluralism with your counter-hegemonic advocacy? Blending analytical frames to construct joined-up food policy in Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contribuidor(es): Rod MacRae, Mark Winfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.60

Canadian food policy is deficient in many ways. First, there is neither national joined-up food policy, nor much supporting food policy architecture at the provincial and municipal levels. Second, there is no roadmap for creating such policy changes. And third, we don’t have an analytical...

Event Review of BPLTC III: Food Control

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contribuidor(es): 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...

The gluten lie: And other myths about what you eat by Alan Levinovitz

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contribuidor(es): Jennifer Brady | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.96

What nutrition buzzword is on the tip of more tongues than gluten? Today’s popular obsession with gluten, or gluten avoidance more precisely, has spurred a bevy of gluten-free products and cookbooks with recipes for items such as cauliflower pizza crust. The Canadian market for gluten free...

Changing the food game: Market transformation strategies for sustainable agriculture by Lucas Simons

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contribuidor(es): Adam Sneyd | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.139

Experts in the area of new agricultural standards, codes, and certifications tend to hold strong perspectives on the reforms that they believe will transform unsustainable conventional farming practices. However, these important practitioner points of view infrequently make a big splash in...

Fat activism: A radical social movement by Charlotte Cooper

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contribuidor(es): Cassandra Kuyvenhoven | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.158

In Fat Activism, Cooper responds to mainstream and scholarly writings on fat activism that she claims create negative assumptions or “proxies” of fat people. These constructed proxies serve to efface, reduce, and oversimplify the voices and the lived experiences of fat activists and fat...

Growing local: Case studies on local food supply chains by Robert P. King, Michael S. Hand, and Miguel I. Gomez (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contribuidor(es): Ryan Phillips | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.136

The local food movement in North America has grown significantly during the last decade, yet there still remains relatively little empirical research on the subject. Fortunately, however, the recent work Growing Local: Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains edited by Robert King, Michael...

Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming Control by Priscilla Claeys

2025-03-19 22:03:46 | Contribuidor(es): Kaitlyn Duthie-Kannikkatt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.181

Critical discussions of human rights have featured prominently in the development studies literature. While many social actors have utilized human rights to advance their goals, the framework has also been criticized for its tendency to individualize struggles and emphasize legal dimensions of...

Food and Femininity by Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston

2025-03-19 22:03:46 | Contribuidor(es): Jennifer Braun | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.184

Driven by a central question—“why do so many women care so much about food?”—Cairns and Johnston investigate the contemporary contours and connections between food and femininity, detailing the diverse ways these two things intersect and emerge in women’s lives. Their research is done in a...

Making better use of what we have: Strategies to minimize food waste and resource inefficiency in Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contribuidor(es): Rod MacRae, Anne Siu, Marlee Kohn, Moira Matsubuchi-Shaw, Doug McCallum, Tania Hernandez Cervantes, Danielle Perreault | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.143

We examined the problems of and solutions to food waste through the main three frames of social science research on food waste: political economy; the cultural turn (the cultures, ideologies and politics of food and consumption); and political ecology. In the course of our collective research...

New CSR in the food system: Industry and non-traditional corporate food interests

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contribuidor(es): Margaret Bancerz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.171

Throughout the twentieth century, the food system has not only undergone changes in structure and in process, but has shown a growing transformation in food system governance. Often this transformation involves private actors engaging in the policymaking and governance arena. This paper draws...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems by Henk de Zeeuw and Pay Drechsel (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contribuidor(es): Zhenzhong Si, Jennifer Marshman, Simon Berge, Ning Dai, Tammara Soma, Bryan Dale, Karen Landman, John Bacher, Mashiur Rahman, Charles Z. Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.177

In an age when we are inundated with information, efforts that streamline that information—by sifting kernels of wheat from the chaff—are precious. Our reviews are intended to assist CFS readers faced with a growing body of material relevant to food studies. However, the standard book review...

Alternative Food Networks in Quebec

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contribuidor(es): Manon Boulianne, Patrick Mundler | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.217

This commentary reflects on a two-day conference, Réseaux alimentaires alternatifs au Québec. Perspectives comparatives, held in Montreal on May 12 & 13, 2016, during the 84th Congress of ACFAS (Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences). The event was organized by...

Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey by Lenore Newman

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contribuidor(es): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.223

Book review.

Food and Society: 2nd Edition by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contribuidor(es): Phoebe Stephens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.215

No abstract required (book review).

Nourrir la machine humaine. Nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 par Caroline Durand

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contribuidor(es): Manon Boulianne | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.214

Il est toujours fascinant de prendre connaissance des contextes d’émergence des discours qui cherchent à transformer les normes et les pratiques sociales, ainsi que des véhicules utilisés pour en assurer la diffusion et tenter d’obtenir l’adhésion des publics concernés. Dans cet ouvrage,...

Catherine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant's Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contribuidor(es): Anita Stewart | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.261

Based on broadly annotated recipes published in 1855, this historical treasure trove of food sourcing and cooking has been reworked for modern readers by editors Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas. These authors have been deeply immersed in Canadian culinary history for most of their careers,...