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Opportunities and Challenges of Developing a Culinary Food Studies Bachelor’s Degree
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Caitlin Michelle Scott, Lori Stahlbrand
Although Food Studies has been acknowledged as a distinctive field in Canada for almost two decades, until now there has not been an undergraduate degree in Food Studies in this country. This is...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7830/?v=1
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Slow cooked: An unexpected life in food politics
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Sumner
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...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7763/?v=1
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A window, a mountain, a scape
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By L. Sasha Gora
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7746/?v=1
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The framing of food in Canadian university classrooms: A preliminary analysis of undergraduate human nutrition sciences, dietetics, and food studies syllabi
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Andrea Bombak, Michelle Adams, Sierra Garofalo, Constance Russell, Emma Robinson, Barbara Parker, Natalie Riediger, Erin Cameron
There are numerous “positivity” movements circulating such as sex positivity and body positivity that affect how sexuality and bodies are discussed, including in educational contexts. These...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7742/?v=1
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“Ways of knowing” in food studies
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Ellen Desjardins
What do we mean by food studies? Is it a distinct field or not, and what might it encompass? This issue starts, poignantly, with a commentary that summarizes some intense deliberations on these...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7682/?v=1
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Borders, boundaries, and becoming food studies: Looking back, pushing forward
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Brady, Charles Z Levkoe, David Szanto
On May 25, 2014, at the ninth annual assembly of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), we (the authors) organized a plenary panel that assembled a number of leading food scholars from...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7683/?v=1
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Food and Society: 2nd Edition by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Phoebe Stephens
No abstract required (book review).
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7605/?v=1
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Conversations in Food Studies by Colin R. Anderson, Jennifer Brady, and Charles Z. Levkoe (Eds.)
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Wayne Roberts
This inspiring collection of essays by mostly young and freshly minted scholars takes me back 50 years, to my own misspent youth during the 1960s and ’70s, when I was part of a social history gang...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7591/?v=1
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Finding formula: Community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Lesley Frank
This paper reports on qualitative research concerning community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity. It explores this topic against the backdrop...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7583/?v=1
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Looking back on food studies in 2020-2021 in so-called Canada
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Amanda Wilson, Meredith Bessey, Jennifer Brady, Michael Classens, Kirsten Lee, Charles Levkoe, Jennifer Marshman, Tabitha Martens, Sarah-Louise Ruder, Phoebe Stephens, Tammara Soma
In this collectively drafted Commentary, we offer some reflections on the past year for CAFS (Canadian Association for Food Stuides), and the state of food studies in general. Note: this is a...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7465/?v=1
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Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/groups/canadianfoodstudies
