Heads up, #InstitutionalFood and #SchoolFood researchers! Can a breakfast be secular? Does lunch have a religion? If you serve halal or kosher food to someone without their knowing it’s halal or kosher, is it? Here’s to injecting a little critical food studies knowledge into our houses of government… Take a look at these two articles on CBC.com and weigh in with your thoughts!

“New secularism bill to ban prayer in schools, restrict offering of religion-based meals” (Nov. 24, 2025): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-21-expansion-quebec-9.6990951

“Quebec's new secularism bill targets daycare workers, prayer spaces and religious meals” (Nov. 27, 2025): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-secularism-bill-9.6993278

#FoodStudies
#InstitutionalFood
#SchoolFood
#Religion
#Secularism
#Halal
#Haram
#Kosher
#Treyf
#CBC
#Québec
#NationalSchoolFoodProgram

photo: David Szanto

Feeling questioning? Or maybe a little reflective? Take a look at some past responses to the CFS/RCÉA “Choux Questionnaire,” our riff on the somewhat more literary “Proust Questionnaire.” Our respondents include food scholars, activists, philosophers, and writers. (Oh, and ChatGPT. Not sure that was the best idea, but its responses certainly show some pretty 'artificial' intelligence.)

Bryan Dale: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i2.755
Joshna Maharaj: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i1.735
Lenore Newman: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i3.715
Greg de St. Maurice: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.701
ChatGPT: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.688
Geneviève Sicotte: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.667
Lisa Heldke: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.650

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Proust
#FoodCulture
#Reflexivity
#FoodJustice
#Philosophy
#InstitutionalFood
#ArtificialIntelligence
#Folklore
#Literature
#Literature

image: "Chinese Croquembouche" (2023) © Annika Walsh

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

#FoodStudies
#FoodBooks
#Mennonites
#InstitutionalFood
#SchoolFood
#HospitalFood
#PrisonFood
#CarceralFood
#Beer
#Hops
#Brewing

From contracts to culture: Exploring how to leverage local, sustainable food purchasing by institutions for food systems change

Jennifer Reynolds
Beth Hunter

#Institutions #FoodProcurement #InstitutionalFood #InstitutionalFoodProcurement #SustainableFood #HospitalFood #CampusFood #SchoolFood

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/285

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023): Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada

CFS is proud to be #OpenAccess! #KnowledgeSharing #OpenScholarship

#AntiRacism #FoodSystem #InstitutionalFood #FederalPrison #PrisonFood #TraditionalFood #FoodAccess #SugarSweetenedBeverages #GoodFood #GoodFarmer #BookReview #FilmReview #DietaryGuidelines #JustPublished #NewIssue #ResourceList #FoodSystemRacism

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/issue/view/33

Disruptive innovation and operationalization in local and sustainable food systems: Examining the University of Toronto-Local Food Plus partnership

Lori Stahlbrand

#UniFood #UniversityFood #InstitutionalFood #InstitutionalProcurement #LocalFood #LocalFoodSystems #SustainableFood #LocalFoodPlus #FoodStudies #Toronto #UofT #UniversityOfToronto
#OpenAccessJournal

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/269