Digesting Food Studies—Episode 116: Social Economy of Food
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2555303/

Sharing, gifting, and informal economies have been around forever, and they might be seeing a new resurgence that offers promise for the long-term.

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, and guest editor Irena Knezevic talks about “The social and informal economy of food” issue of Canadian Food Studies. (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3).

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

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#SocialEconomy
#GiftEconomy
#Sharing
#Boticelli
#CatherineParrTraill
#FemaleEmigrantsGuide
#SocialGastronomy
#FeministTheory
#UrbanAgriculture
#FruitRescue
#FoodStudies
#Academia

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 115: Fisheries Diversification
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2477576/

Diversification is a survival strategy in many 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.

The article in focus is Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis’s “Fishing amongst industrial ghosts: The challenges of green sea urchin diversification in Eastern Canada.” (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i1.680)

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.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#Fisheries
#StLawrence
#SeaUrchin
#Uni
#Gonads
#Diversification
#Fishing
#WolastoqiyikWahsipekukFirstNation
#Maqahamok
#Cacouna
#MontrealBiodome
#EspacePourLaVie
#Anthropocene
#Capitalocene
#FoodStudies
#Academia

photo: Hannah Robinson

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Digesting Food Studies—Episode 115: Fisheries Diversification
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2477576/

Diversification is a survival strategy in many 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.

The article in focus is Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis’s “Fishing amongst industrial ghosts: The challenges of green sea urchin diversification in Eastern Canada.” (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i1.680)

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.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#Fisheries
#StLawrence
#SeaUrchin
#Uni
#Gonads
#Diversification
#Fishing
#WolastoqiyikWahsipekukFirstNation
#Maqahamok
#Cacouna
#MontrealBiodome
#EspacePourLaVie
#Anthropocene
#Capitalocene
#FoodStudies
#Academia

photo: Hannah Robinson

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 114: Flexitarianism
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2469363/

Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian? As we learn from this episode’s guest author, Kelsey Speakman, flexitarianism is a complex space of food making, ethical and multispecies relationships, and marketing rhetoric.

Kelsey’s article on the subject, “Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances,” comes from Vol. 11, No. 4 of Canadian Food Studies (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.638). And sandwiching this meat-alternatives theme are Alexia Moyer on a powerful kitchen implement, and Milka Milicevic on the power of true alternatives in eating.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#Flexitarianism
#FoodAlternatives
#Eating
#Supermarkets
#KitchenMallet
#Meat
#Vegetarianism
#GeorgeBrownPolytechnic
#GBPolytech
#GBCollege
#HonoursBachelorOfFoodStudies
#TheSpaceMerchants
#FrederikPohl
#CyrilKornbluth
#FoodStudies
#Academia

photos: Alexia Moyer

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 114: Flexitarianism
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2469363/

Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian? As we learn from this episode’s guest author, Kelsey Speakman, flexitarianism is a complex space of food making, ethical and multispecies relationships, and marketing rhetoric.

Kelsey’s article on the subject, “Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances,” comes from Vol. 11, No. 4 of Canadian Food Studies (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.638). And sandwiching this meat-alternatives theme are Alexia Moyer on a powerful kitchen implement, and Milka Milicevic on the power of true alternatives in eating.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodPodcast
#Flexitarianism
#FoodAlternatives
#Eating
#Supermarkets
#KitchenMallet
#Meat
#Vegetarianism
#GeorgeBrownPolytechnic
#GBPolytech
#GBCollege
#HonoursBachelorOfFoodStudies
#TheSpaceMerchants
#FrederikPohl
#CyrilKornbluth
#FoodStudies
#Academia

photos: Alexia Moyer

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 113: Eating and Social Isolation
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2422624/

Do you eat alone, or with others? Is it by choice, or are your commensality options dictated by your social condition, your domestic situation, your access to shared space? https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.220

Eating is both a unifier and divider in our food cultures, and the spaces in which we do it can both support connection-making and reinforce isolation. This episode focuses on an audio artwork by Mélanie Binette—a sound installation in a Montréal community restaurant called “Invité.e.s Invisible.s”—intended to help solo eaters connect.

Plus, Alexia Moyer shares two other soundscapes and their implications for sociability, while Samphe Ballamingie responds poetically to Mélanie’s artistic intervention.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodSystems
#Eating
#Art
#Isolation
#Society
#Commensality
#Soundscape
#MilieuDeNullePart
#LeChicRestoPop
#HochelagaMaisonneuve
#FoodStudies
#Academia
#FoodPodcast

photo: Patrick Ma

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 112: Centralization of Power in Food Systems

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2382014/

There’s a lot of power in food and food systems: care and nurturing, regeneration and resilience. The power to feed, to refuse food, and to transform landscapes. And then there’s petroleum, data, GMOs, and pesticides; financialization, tractors, and land-grabbing…

This episode explores how corporations and governments operate and control spaces of production and transformation, with articles from Vol. 2, No. 2 of CFS, which our guest, Jennifer Clapp, co–guest edited. (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2)

Alexia Moyer shares learnings from Brian Brett’s book, Trauma Farm, and PhD student Heidi Janes responds to a selection of CFS articles about corporate power.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodSystems
#Agriculture
#Farming
#Pesticides
#Fertilizer
#Tractors
#PrecisionAgriculture
#Financialization
#LandGrabbing
#Palestine
#Gaza
#Power
#Capitalism
#BrianBrett
#TraumaFarm
#Academia
#FoodPodcast

image: Johnson Martin, Pixabay

Digesting Food Studies—Episode 108: Un-learning and Re-Learning

Should all food knowledge be freely shared? When we learn in university contexts, what structures shape our understanding? What should we try to un-learn? To re-learn? To reimagine?

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2274516/

We start with an Amuse Bouche segment on the partial sharing of traditional knowledges, and then Alissa Overend and Ronak Rai talk about their article, “Un-learning and re-learning: Reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties” (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.649).

Finally, transdisciplinary food artist and researcher, Annika Walsh, adds her own flavor to the mix, with a deeply reflexive response to Alissa’s and Ronak’s text.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Knowledge
#Epistemology
#Ontology
#IndigenousKnowledge
#IndigenousElders
#Colonialism
#SettlerColonialism
#Berries
#Strawberries
#SaskatoonBerries
#Foraging
#Academia
#Reflexivity
#FoodPodcast

photo: Bonnie McDonald on Pixabay

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 111: Lunch Box Identities

What is “Canadian food” and how does its interpretation affect our identity and sense of belonging—especially in primary and secondary schools?

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2350341/

This episode unpacks the packed lunch, in particular those that the kids of first-generation immigrants bring to school. Two articles from Canadian Food Studies are covered, both co-written by Yukari Seko, “Unboxing the bento box” (Vol. 8, No. 3) and “Feeding children while Asian” (Vol. 12, No. 2). And in response, PhD student Shay Quinn offers up several perspectives on meaning-making, involving research participants in research, and arts-informed methodologies.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#SchoolLunch
#Lunchboxes
#SchoolFood
#FoodPrograms
#StudentSuccess
#PrimarySchools
#SecondarySchools
#SchoolBoards
#Hunger
#MentalHealth
#CulturalIdentity
#Families
#TheSixMillionDollarMan
#SteveAustin
#CareBears
#SchoolCafeterias
#FoodPodcast

photo: David Szanto