Digesting Food Studies—Episode 118: Reading Menus as History
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2637411/

What’s on the menu? A lot, it turns out, and we’re not just talking about hors d’oeuvres and tasting combos. From gravy stains to hand-written notes, menus are an important source of information about cultural histories, social patterns, and human migration.

This episode considers menus as historical records. Alexia Moyer shares excerpts of meal planning from Northern Cookbook, and guest Koby Song-Nichols explains his 4-part methodology for menu analysis, discussed in “Can Historians Order off the Menu?” from Canadian Food Studies. (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.682).

And, serving up a scoopful of DFS afters, Anson Hunt weighs in with his perspective on Koby’s article and the ways that menus bridge conversations between front, back, and middle of house.

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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.

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#FruitRescue
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Revealing that no discipline is an island, we bring together Food Studies and Feminist Studies by way of a book-turned-bridge and a podcast-turned-boat. Plus, there’s rice pudding involved!

First, read this book: Food and Femininity by Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston. (Read Jennifer Braun’s review of it here: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.184)

Then, listen to the Feminist Food Studies episode of the CFS podcast, Digesting Food Studies (episode 10). Listen here: https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2324652/

The question remains, what does all of this have to do with a recipe for rice pudding? Inquiring minds like yours will definitely want to know…

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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.

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#Uni
#Gonads
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#Fishing
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#Cacouna
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#EspacePourLaVie
#Anthropocene
#Capitalocene
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photo: Hannah Robinson

2 new books on #plants & the #nonhuman in #Literature & #Culture
Elizabeth A. Campbell explores the #Solanaceae (belladonna, potato, tobacco, pepper, tomato etc) in diverse texts such as poetry & fiction but also botanical treatises, newspaper reports & medical ads

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