Digesting Food Studies is a podcast that helps break down research on food systems into manageable portions. It’s for listeners who are learning and teaching about food studies, for those working in fields and factories, and for people in policy and politics, making the rules that govern and guide us. From food justice to sustainability to intercultural identity, from the technologies of agriculture to the relationships embedded in Indigenous foodways, each episode helps digest one big idea. As a tool for teaching, a guide for new researchers, or inspiration for practitioners and activists, Digesting Food Studies bridges the gap between academese and everyday eating. This podcast is supported in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Lakehead University, and the Canadian Association for Food Studies. Concentré d’études sur l’alimentation est un podcast qui vous aide à absorber la recherche sur les systèmes alimen
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Signup to Generate a PitchDigesting Food Studies is a podcast that helps break down research on food systems into manageable portions. It’s for listeners who are learning and teaching about food studies, for those working in fields and factories, and for people in policy and politics, making the rules that govern and guide us.
Recent episodes include "Carceral Food Systems" (16 April 2026, 32 minutes), "Kids' Lit and Food Insecurity" (2 April 2026, 30 minutes), and "Reading Menus as History" (19 March 2026, 30 minutes).
Digesting Food Studies publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 22 episodes.
Booking probability for Digesting Food Studies is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Digesting Food Studies requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Digesting Food Studies's contact route on record: verified email.
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Digesting Food Studies is an arts podcast with 22 episodes published.
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Episode #120
<p>This episode considers carceral food systems and the roles food plays in expressing identity and liberty, as well as oppression and power. Alexia Moyer’s Amuse Bouche segment starts it off with a historical record of...
Episode #119
<p>In this episode, we look at the ways in which literature for kids addresses food insecurity, hunger, and poverty, including the lasting impact of such representations. Alexia Moyer’s Amuse Bouche segment considers a...
Episode #118
<p>This episode considers the menu as documentation of cultural history and as representation of restaurant offerings. From our guests’ points of view, menus tell official stories of options and choice making, while...
Episode #117
<p>This episode explores how the economies of food systems might be re-thought and reoriented towards creating integrated value exchanges beyond just the financial kind. Sharing, gifting, and informal economies have...
Episode #116
<p>Certain foods are named for the places they come from, but many foods acquire place-based names for quite different reasons. This episode peels back the layers of that oh-so-Canadian treat, the Nanaimo Bar. Lenore...
Episode #115
<p>Diversification is a survival strategy that applies to many aspects of food systems, from biomes to economies to cuisine. This episode is about many of those things, including green sea urchins and the Wolastoqiyik...
Episode #114
<p>Are you a carnivore? A vegan? A frugivore? Or do you fall in between categories of eater, identifying more as a flexitarian? As we learn from this episode’s guest author, Kelsey Speakman, flexitarianism is a complex...
Episode #113
<p>Eating and togetherness go hand in hand, or at least, that’s what our socioculture tells us. Yet many people, particularly seniors, live and dine alone. Even outside the home, eating can be an isolating experience...
Digesting Food Studies
<p>As we slide into 2026, Digesting Food Studies is taking a break for a couple of weeks. But never fear, we have some other food and food-related shows to share! Listen on, or follow the links below to hear from some...
Episode #112
<p>There’s a lot of power in food and food systems. This episode explores the centralization of that power, particularly the ways in which corporations and governments operate and control spaces of production and...
Episode #111
<p>Bringing food to school from home implicates a lot of issues: logistics, taste, temperature control, shame, pride, and carrying devices. This episode unpacks the packed lunch, in particular those that the kids of...
Episode #110
<p>Feminist studies and food studies have a fascinating history of difference, alignment, and emergence. This episode covers some of that span, from rice pudding (without eggs) to an issue of Canadian Food Studies (Vol...
Episode #109
<p>Tackling food waste is a big issue, particularly in wealthy countries. It emerges from all aspects of the food production-consumption web, implicating individual, municipal, regional, and global actors. This episode...
Episode #108
<p>How academics know and learn things is dependent on a myriad of conventions, many of which are coupled to a history of extractivism and colonialist structures. Coming to grips with that—and re-learning relational and...
Episode #107
<p>(show notes in English)</p><p>Alors que la contestation mondiale contre les herbicides à base de glyphosate s'intensifie et que les politiciens et les entreprises chimiques ajoutent leurs propres pressions concernant...
Episode #106
<p>Well-conceived and collectively enacted school food programs can bring numerous, cascading benefits to students, communities, and food environments more broadly. As Federal legislation brings into being such programs...
Episode #105
<p>Indigenous food sovereignty—and the lack thereof—is intimately linked to histories of colonial oppression and present-day exploitative capitalism and extractivism. Nonetheless, as this episode’s guest Kaylee Michnik...
Episode #104
<p>Whether you breastfeed, formula feed, or do both, securing sustenance for infants can be both fundamental and fraught. Lesley Frank has been doing research on first food systems and infant-and-caregiver food...
Episode #102
<p>How do we best learn about the complexities of food systems, particularly within the constraints of university-level courses? Jennifer Sumner and Michael Classens, the guest editors of the "Food Pedagogies in Canada"...
Episode #103
<p>How can food art—collaborative or individual—show what is both special and ordinary about food, domestic labour, and systemic relationships? Susan Goldberg gives her thoughts on the subject as she discusses her art...
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VP & Head of Marketing and AI GTM, Blacksheep Regenerative Resource Management
certified nutrition specialist, Ancestral Supplements
Associate Professor, Oasis: A Haven for Women and Children
Vice Dean + Professor of Practice, ASU’s College of Global Futures and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
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