CFS as food studies matchmaker? Yep! We’re putting together a book review and a memoir for your weekend reading pleasure…
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57

What are the true costs of an industrial food system? How can we get a better perspective by taking both an insider and outsider look at farming?

Try pairing Rita Hansen Sterne’s review of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by (Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott) with poet and journalist Brian Brett’s Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.

While the former unpacks cheap meat, the latter takes us to small, mixed farm on Salt Spring Island (BC). But should you name an animal you are going to eat? Brett’s solution is to give them all interchangeable names, rather than assign one to each individual. His pigs go by Bacon, Eggs, and Toast.

Bonne lecture!

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How did Canadian housewives become “housesoldiers”? And can food actually win wars? Read on!

We suggest you start with Jennifer Brady’s review of Ian Mosby’s first book, Food Will Win The War: The Politics, Culture and Science of Food (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.46). Then, pair it with The Dorothy Perkins Canadian Garden Book.

https://www.ubcpress.ca/food-will-win-the-war
https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-109291-36/

More questions ensue: How does one stake up one’s tomatoes? What are the benefits of a cold frame? And is Dorothy Perkins the author’s real name?

Perkins teaches us how to be productionists in our own back garden on the heels of the first world war, while Mosby explores the whys and wherefores of household production in the second world war.

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Doing a little course planning or looking for reading list additions? Revisit the Canadian Food Studies book reviews for some inspiration!

Start with Taarini Chopra’s review of Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton.
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.38

Then pair it with Annabel Soutar’s theatre play, Seeds, which brings genetically modified crops into the realm of documentary theatre.
https://porteparole.org/en/plays/seeds/

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#Theater
#DocumentaryTheatre
#GMOs
#GeneticallyModifiedFoods
#Wheat
#Farming
#Farmers
#Agriculture
#FoodPolitics
#SeedSaving

Read a good food studies book lately? Seen a food-art show or a kitchen design expo? Marathoned a food documentary series? Canadian Food Studies is always looking for book, media, art, and event reviews! Email the Reviews Editor (reviews [aht] canadian food studies [dawt] ca) or click on the “Submit a request” button on the journal’s landing page (canadianfoodstudies.ca).

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image: David Szanto

Looking for some rich, hearty, and satisfying food studies readings? Check out the latest book reviews from Canadian Food Studies!

Eating Like a Mennonite: Food and Community Across Borders (by Marlene Epp), reviewed by Aqeel Ihsan
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i2.743

Serving the Public: The Good Food Revolution in Schools, Hospitals and Prisons (by Kevin Morgan), reviewed by Jennifer Sumner
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i2.744

Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity (by Jeffrey Pilcher), reviewed by Ethan Shapiro
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i2.747

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#InstitutionalFood
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I reviewed A History of Howard Johnson’s: How a Massachusetts Soda Fountain Became an American Icon.

#bookreview #review #howardjohnsns #foodhistory #food #foodbooks
https://allthethingsieat.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-casual-dining-empire-in-mitchell-sammarcos-a-history-of-howard-johnsons/

Great lamb & yoghurt recipe from Ottolenghi's "Simple". Bonus: it actually is simple - unlike most of his recipes, it does not require that you live next to a souk dreamed up by Italo Calvino for one of his invisible cities.

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