Digesting Food Studies
Episodes
Toward 2026
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Centralization of Power in Food Systems
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Lunch Box Identities
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing food to school from home implicates a lot of issues: logistics, taste, temperature control, shame, pride, and carrying devices. This episode ...
Feminist Food Studies
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Feminist studies and food studies have a fascinating history of difference, alignment, and emergence. This episode covers some of that span, from rice...
Food Waste
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tackling food waste is a big issue, particularly in wealthy countries. It emerges from all aspects of the food production-consumption web, implicating...
Un-learning and Re-Learning
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 st...
Les pesticides et la politique
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(show notes in English)Alors que la contestation mondiale contre les herbicides à base de glyphosate s'intensifie et que les politiciens et les entre...
School Food Programs
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well-conceived and collectively enacted school food programs can bring numerous, cascading benefits to students, communities, and food environments mo...
Indigenous Food Sovereignty
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous food sovereignty—and the lack thereof—is intimately linked to histories of colonial oppression and present-day exploitative capitalism ...
Infant Food Insecurity
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you breastfeed, formula feed, or do both, securing sustenance for infants can be both fundamental and fraught. Lesley Frank has been doing res...
Food Art & Material Practice
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can food art—collaborative or individual—show what is both special and ordinary about food, domestic labour, and systemic relationships? Susan...
Teaching about Food Systems
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we best learn about the complexities of food systems, particularly within the constraints of university-level courses? Jennifer Sumner and Mich...
Introducing Meat Studies
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is meat a product, a process, or both? And what about plant-based “meat” and other meat-like foods? Élisabeth Abergel and Ryan Phillips, the gues...
Welcome to Food Studies
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this preview episode, we introduce how this podcast will help unpack research on food systems in a variety of ways. Host David Szanto talks with Al...