Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 104: Infant Food Security

Whether you #breastfeed, feed with #babyformula, or do both, securing sustenance for newborns can be fraught. #Infant and #caregiver #foodsecurity is a multi-layered, multi-experiential reality, in the past and present. What will its future hold?

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2173092/

This episode features Lesley Frank on the “first food systems” of infant feeding, Natalia Alaniz-Salinas responding to Lesley’s article, “Finding Formula” (Vol. 5 No. 1 of CFS), and Alexia Moyer on the history of milk, including its price, positioning, and propaganda. Drink up!

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Infancy
#Caregivers
#Parenting
#InfantFoodSecurity
#BabyFormula
#Breastfeeding
#Milk
#FindingFormula
#FirstFoodSystems
#FoodHistory
#FoodSecurity
#Advertising
#Propoganda
#FoodInsecurity
#Gender
#WomensWork
#FoodPodcast

photo: Erik De Leon; visual effects: Natalie Doonan

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 103: Food Art & Material Practice

What can we learn about #foodsystems from making #art and getting our hands on the #materiality of food? Oh so very much!

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2172998/

Writer, artist, and psychotherapist Susan Goldberg discusses her artwork, poem, and reflection piece, “Milk and Bread” (Vol. 12 No. 1 of Canadian Food Studies), and recent master’s graduate Caylie Warkentin weighs in with a perspective on material practice more generally. We touch on the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (horg.com), which documents and categorizes bread bag ties—in all seriousness AND silliness. And, as Alexia Moyer shares, there are some fascinating parallels between #gender and #cutlery to be explored. Sink your tines into that!

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodArt
#FoundArt
#FoodSystems
#Materiality
#Milk
#Bread
#BreadBagTies
#DomesticLabour
#Poetry
#HouseholdManagement
#Cutlery
#Tableware
#Gender
#WomensWork
#covid
#FoodPodcast

image: Susan Goldberg

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 109: Food Waste

Repurposing leftover Hallowe’en candy as farm animal fodder? It may sound wild, but as you’ll hear in this #podcast, it’s just one odd recommendation within the complex hierarchies of dealing with food waste…

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2296101/

This episode tackles food waste, an issue as old as #domestication. Food scholar Tammara Soma shares perspectives from “Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada” (Vol. 9 No. 1 of Canadian Food Studies), and PhD student Dante Gbejewoh offers his response to the piece, encouraging listeners to leverage the article’s diagram about #closed-loop #foodsystems. Alexia Moyer sneaks us back to a long-titled #historical #cookbook on household management, including its implications for #gendered labour.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#FoodWaste
#Upcycling
#Recycling
#Trash
#Cookbooks
#HouseholdManagement
#HomeEconomics
#Gender
#Labour
#WomensWork
#CanadianHistory
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems

image: David Szanto

"More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households.

This picture has emerged following an extensive search of thousands of court reports and witness statements that describe the activities being undertaken by everyday folk."

#WomensWork #AWomansPlace #History #WomenHaveAlwaysFought

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-woman-home-assumptions-women-early.html

Idag varr jag med och spelade på Julia Adzukis cch Patrick Dallards "Water Wedding" installation/ceremoni på Södertalje konsthall. Adzuki's installation "Vatt-Anna, Sorceresse",som vi kollaboerade på delar av ljud element med, var även en del av den "Geographical Transmittals" utställning där. Det var fint!

Today I played as part of Julia Adzuki's and Patrick Dallard's "Water Wedding" installatiin/ceremony.. Adzuki's installation "Vatt-Anna, Sorceresse", which we collaborated on some of the sound elements of, was also part of the "Geographic Transmittals" exhibition there as well. It was lovely!

#soundart
#ljudkonst
#womenswork
#kvinnoarbete
#watee
#vatten

Today I played as part of Julia Adzuki's and Patrick Dallard's "Water Wedding" installatiin/ceremony.. Adzuki's installation "Vatt-Anna, Sorceresse", which we collaborated on some of the sound elements of, was also part of the "Geographic Transmittals" exhibition there as well. It was lovely!

#soundart
#ljudkonst
#womenswork
#kvinnoarbete
#watee
#vatten

"Think raw milk is “traditional”? Think again. For generations, moms boiled milk daily to keep their kids alive. Forgetting that truth disrespects the brutal labor women did to protect their families."

#HowThingsWere #WomensWork #Milk #TraditionalLabour #Health #Pasturisation

https://youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk