A Shared Lunch! Vol. 12 No. 3 of Canadian Food Studies is about being “in it” together, so we thought we’d follow that ethos and share our lunch with you… Or actually, our authors’ lunches.

Elaine Power starts it off with her shared lunch: “A bowl of squash, parsnip and carrot soup, made from my last CSA veggie box of the year, with Aleppo chilies on top; a local Honeycrisp apple; and some Manchego cheese.”

There are certainly some shared sensibilities between Power’s lunch and her responses to the CFS Choux Questionnaire. But why take our word for it? Read, and find out: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i3.775

#FoodStudies
#Lunch
#SharingFood
#Squash
#Courges
#Parsnip
#Panais
#CarrotSoup
#SoupeAuxCarottes
#CommunitySupportedAgriculture
#CSA
#AleppoChilies
#PimentDAlep
#HoneycrispApple
#Manchego
#ChouxQuestionnaire
#FoodInsecurity
#FoodSecurity
#FoodWaste
#FoodLiteracy
#FoodRetail
#FoodJustice
#CanadianFoodStudies

photo: Elaine Power

Check out the latest issue of Canadian Food Studies (canadianfoodstudies.ca)!

Vol. 12, No. 3 is now out, featuring five research articles, one review article, and the Choux Questionnaire (with the inimitable Elaine Power). Plus, a thoughtful editorial about fitting in and fitting together, from CFS editor Sara Edge, as well as beautiful cover art from illustrator and sustainable food systems consultant, Laurence Deschamps-Léger (laucolo.com).

From all of us at CFS/RCÉA, here's to a peaceful and fruitful 2026!

#FoodCulture
#FoodInsecurity
#FoodSecurity
#FoodWaste
#FoodLiteracy
#FoodRetail
#FoodJustice
#CanadianFoodStudies

As the fall 2025 university and college semester wraps up, what inspires you about teaching or learning food studies? Perhaps a Canadian Food Studies article on pedagogy? We suggest you start with Phoebe Stephens’ and Lucy Hinton’s “The state of post-secondary food studies pedagogy in Canada” from vol. 8, no. 4 (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.468).

image: Lucy Godoy

Then check out the rest of this themed issue on Food pedagogies in Canada, guest edited by Michael Classens and Jennifer Sumner. Articles cover food literacy, integrated studies, sitopias, land-based learning, syllabi, bachelor’s degrees, farmers’ markets, food waste, campus cafeterias, performance, and food justice! (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4)

#FoodStudies
#FoodPedagogy
#AdultLearning
#FoodLiteracy
#Sitopia
#LandBasedLearning
#Syllabus
#FarmersMarkets
#FoodWaste
#Cafeterias
#Performance
#FoodJustice

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 102: Teaching about Food Studies

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2172786/

Learning about food and food systems goes way beyond classroom lectures, involving #power and #justice, #reciprocity and #listening, getting your hands into #soil and getting your heart in a roil. It’s a full mind-body experience!

This episode features Jennifer Sumner and Michael Classens, two leaders in critical teaching and learning about food systems—and guest editors of the Food Pedagogies issue of Canadian Food Studies (Vol. 8 No. 4)… Alexia Moyer explores the kinds of school environments that support food learning before post-secondary education, and in the “After Taste,” Eric Schofield responds to “Toward a Common Understanding of Food Literacy,” by Kimberley Hernandez, Doris Gillis, Kathleen Kevany, and Sara Kirk.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Pedagogy
#TeachingAndLearning
#SchoolGardens
#Education
#FoodLiteracy
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems
#PaoloFreire
#FoodJustice

image: Lucy Godoy

This video of kids rapping about food quality is clever and surprisingly insightful — a fun entry point to talk about nutrition, sourcing, and healthy choices with young people. What’s one thing you’d want kids to know about the food they eat?

Video Link->
https://youtu.be/PqgU3co4vcI

#FoodQuality #KidsSpeak #Edutainment #Nutrition #FoodEducation #HealthyEating #YouthVoices #FoodLiteracy #SchoolMeals #FoodJustice

Challenges to acquiring and utilizing food literacy: Perceptions of young Canadian adults

Sarah Colatruglio
Joyce Slater

#FoodLiteracy #Nutrition #FoodSkills #Health #YoungAdults

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

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/72

Towards a common understanding of food literacy
a pedagogical framework

Kimberley J Hernandez
Doris Gillis
Kathleen Kevany
Sara Kirk

#FoodLiteracy #Pedagogy #Interdisciplinary #Teaching

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

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/467

“This brings meaning and purpose to the lessons:”
Teachers’ and facilitators’ perspectives on the joys and challenges of school garden programs in south-eastern Ontario

Janette Haase
Elaine Power

#SchoolGarden #Food #FoodLiteracy #FarmToSchool #Sustainability #Interviews #Gardens #Ontario

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/600