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And, closing things out, chef-activist-PhD student Joshna Maharaj responds to Kelsey Timler’s article, “Protest pizzas: Resisting carcerality with storytelling, community building, and an array of toppings” (doi.org/10.15353/cfs...)

After that, Amanda Wilson discusses themes from the May 2025 themed section of Canadian Food Studies that she co-edited, “Exploring Carceral Food Systems” (canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...).

Alexia Moyer’s Amuse Bouche segment starts it off with a historical record of how WWII prisoners of war in Singapore dealt with hunger, privation, and the distribution of food labour.

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Digesting Food Studies—Episode 120: Carceral Food Systems
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This episode considers carceral food systems and the roles food plays in expressing identity and liberty, as well as oppression and power.

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Then, with a perspective on family food insecurity more broadly, Ruby Harrington shares her thoughts on Dian’s article and the ways in which hunger and poverty need systemic, concerted attention from academics and governance bodies alike.

Alexia Moyer looks back at food insecurity in The Tin Flute (Bonheur d’occasion) by Gabrielle Roy, while Dian Day gazes forward with her qualitative analysis “Food Insecurity in Books for Children?” AND her own graphic novel (with Amanda White), Shy Cat and the Stuff-the-Bus Challenge.

Books for kids can be mirrors and windows, reflecting readers’ own lives or opening up onto those of others. When it comes to issues like hunger and poverty, portrayals in children’s literature have lasting effects on our collective understanding.

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Digesting Food Studies—Episode 119: Kids’ Lit and Food Insecurity
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And, with a scoopful of afters, Anson Hunt weighs in with his perspectives and the ways in which menus bridge conversations between front, back, and middle of house.

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This episode considers menus as historical records. Alexia shares excerpts of meal planning from Northern Cookbook, and guest Koby Song-Nichols explains his 4-part methodology for menu analysis, discussed in “Can Historians Order off the Menu?” from Canadian Food Studies. (doi.org/10.15353/cfs...).

What’s on the menu? A lot, it turns out, and we’re not just talking about hors d’oeuvres and tasting combos. From gravy stains to hand-written notes, menus are an important source of information about cultural histories, social patterns, and human migration.

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Digesting Food Studies—Episode 118: Reading Menus as History
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...and guest editor Irena Knezevic talks about “The social and informal economy of food” issue of Canadian Food Studies. (doi.org/10.15353/cfs...).

Finally, Christophe Dubois shares his thoughts on social gastronomy and Mary Anne Martin’s use of feminist theory to explore urban agriculture.

This episode helps re-think and reorient ourselves towards creating integrated value exchanges beyond just the financial kind. Alexia Moyer provides gifts from Sandro Botticelli and Catherine Parr Traill...

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Digesting Food Studies—Episode 116: Social Economy of Food
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Sharing, gifting, and informal economies have been around forever, and they might be seeing a new resurgence that offers promise for the long-term.

Hear two episodes of Digesting Food Studies podcast "Welcome to Food Studies" and "School Food Programs" from @foodstudies.ca

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Beaver, Bison, Horse As one of North America’s most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for millennia. Among these, Indigenous bonds to beavers, bison, and h...

Then, pair it with a dissertation-turned-monograph from 30 years ago, and now in print. R. Grace Morgan’s Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains includes a foreword by none other James Daschuk. uofrpress.ca/Books/B/Beav...

Start with James Daschuk’s "Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life," reviewed by Bradley C. Hiebert in Vol. 1, No, 2 of Canadian Food Studies: doi.org/10.15353/cfs...

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Cover of R. Grace Morgan’s book, “Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains,” featuring the author name and title, with images of the three named animals sitting behind their respective names.

Following the University of Regina Press’s tagline, “A Gathering of Many Voices,” we’ve pulled together two voices from their catalogue, offering possible research, teaching, and travel inspiration on or in the Northern Great Plains.

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Pictured below the title and author names is a pine table, upon which is placed a pair of green oven mitts and a long wooden spoon, bowl facing downward.

The question remains, what does all of this have to do with a recipe for rice pudding? Inquiring minds like yours will definitely want to know…

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Then, listen to the Feminist Food Studies episode of the CFS podcast, Digesting Food Studies (episode 10). Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/dig...

Showing that no discipline is an island, we connect Food Studies and Feminist Studies by way of a book-turned-bridge and a podcast-turned-boat. Plus: rice pudding!

First, read "Food and Femininity" by Kate Cairns & Josée Johnston. (Read Jennifer Braun’s review of it here: doi.org/10.15353/cfs...)

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Plus, Alexia Moyer shares a story from the Montréal Biodome, and master student Adelle D’Urzo Paugh responds to Charlotte’s article with reflections on participatory co-learning and the Capitalocene.

The Canadian Food Studies publication in focus is Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis’s “Fishing amongst industrial ghosts: The challenges of green sea urchin diversification in Eastern Canada,” from Vol. 12, No. 1 (2025). (doi.org/10.15353/cfs...)

Diversification is a survival strategy that applies to many aspects of food systems, from biomes to economies to cuisine. This episode is about many of those things, including green sea urchins and the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation’s approach to fisheries and food-making.