'The willpower involved is seen as admirable; the idea – which has been debunked by research into obesity – is that anyone can have a slim body, if they only try hard enough. By contrast, using injections to lose weight is perceived as easy, even “lazy"'. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/11/weight-loss-drugs-why-do-people-lie-about-taking-ozempic #foodstudies #diet #obesity #GLP1 #satiety

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Seeds of Inquiry: Emerging Voices in Food Studies
Symposium for Students, Postdocs, and Emerging Scholars

The Symposium is free but requires early registration as there are limited spaces.

Registration links can be found on our Upcoming Conference page:
https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/

This year’s social event will feature a Book Launch profiling six new Canadian food studies publications, with a few words from the authors!

L’événement social de cette année mettra à l’honneur le lancement de six nouvelles publications en études alimentaires canadiennes, avec quelques mots des auteur·trice·s présent·e·s !

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-cafs-social-book-launch-and-awards-ceremony-tickets-1278375047179

Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation is the open-access, online journal of the Canadian Association for Food Studies.

#OpenAccess #Food #FoodStudies #Environment #Connection #Community #Practice #Scholarship #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics

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

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs

The trouble with maps like this is the tendency to oversimplify. Yet, it provides a basic overview and framework for exploring what you think should be added. #CanadianCuisine #foodhistory #foodstudies From @TasteAtlas

Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food with Recipes

Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
When: June 3, 2025, 7:00-9:30 pm
Where: And/Ore, 1040 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H7

Details and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-cafs-social-book-launch-and-awards-ceremony-tickets-1278375047179?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

#CongreSSH #FoodStudies #Toronto #Food # #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025

CONGRESS early Bird Deadline is this THURSDAY, MARCH 20TH.

Register now for Foundations, Evolutions, and Revolutions!
George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario from June 2- June 5, 2025

2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch, and Awards Ceremony
Tickets are available now. Early Bird ticket prices end April 12th.

https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/

Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters

Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony

Details and Tickets: https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/

#CongreSSH #FoodStudies #Toronto #Food #TorontoFoodie #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics #FoodArt #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025

Pableaux Johnson, a New Orleans-based photographer and writer known for regularly dishing out red beans and rice to friends and strangers at his Uptown home and on the road, died Sunday, January 26, 2025. He was 59 years old. https://nola.eater.com/2025/2/4/24358892/remembering-pableaux-johnson #foodstudies #RedBeansAndRice

'According to Kjeldsens [butter cookies], we have Roger Lobo, a Hong Kong businessman, to thank for this remarkable episode of cultural exchange.' https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kjeldsens-danish-cookies-hong-kong #foodhistory #foodstudies #LunarNewYear #HongKong #DanishButterCookies

Exploration Gallery #CAFS2025
The deadline for submitting is extended.
Exploration Gallery submissions are due on February 14, 2025.

la Galerie d’exploration #ACEA2025
Le date limite pour soumettre a été prolongée.
Les soumissions pour la Galerie d’exploration doivent être envoyées avant le 14 février 2025.

https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/

'One of the most common ways for a country’s cuisine to enter another country is with working-class migrants or refugees, two groups who find selling food a quick and relatively easy way to make money. They focus on easy, crowd-pleasing dishes, made with whatever ingredients they can get, even when not entirely authentic.' https://amp.scroll.in/magazine/1077678/how-the-h-1b-visa-changed-american-food-culture-forever #foodstudies #foodhistory

It's #WorldFoodDay tomorrow, Wednesday 16 Oct, themed around the right to food. Online:

Supermarkets and the Right to Food in the UK https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/events/event/475/supermarkets-and-the-right-to-food-in-the-uk

Labour’s first 100 days - where are we heading on food, farming & climate? https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/labours-first-100-days-where-are-we-heading-on-food-farming-climate-tickets-1033533415267

#FoodStudies
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/events/event/475/supermarkets-and-the-right-to-food-in-the-uk

AFN+ Network have been running some really interesting webinars on food systems change and net zero. This one starts shortly https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alternative-proteins-whats-in-it-for-farmers-land-use-tickets-1002910210437?keep_tld=1 #FoodStudies

Mexico's law on healthy and sustainable diets leads the way in food policy and more in the Sustain newsletter https://mailchi.mp/sustainweb/bridging-the-gap-a-new-pilot-for-organic-september #FoodStudies

Small is Beautiful - a rather lovely short film on growing the local food movement in Dartington and Totnes #FoodStudies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_GDzNOzGGM

An upcoming webinar on framing sustainable food #FoodStudies #FoodSystems #Agroecology https://www.fao.org/agroecology/database/detail/en/c/1698449/

I've previously written about the plethora of sustainability terms seen around farming, what they mean (and what they don't): https://nathannelson.co.uk/regenerative-confusion-and-the-kaleidoscope-of-food-systems

Interesting looking discussion starting in one hour, details and registration here: https://tabledebates.org/events/regenerative-and-ultra-processed-part-1 #FoodStudies #Agroecology

Great discussion from this year's Groundswell Festival on landscape-scale regeneration and bioregional weaving https://soundcloud.com/farmerama-radio/farmerama-87 #FoodStudies #Agroecology