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What to Read Now: Spring 2022
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Mar 13, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, Gastronomica editorial collective member Jaclyn Rohel highlights new titles from the world of food studies. She is joined by Michael Classens, Assistant Professor in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto and author of the recently published book, From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms: Food, Agriculture, and Change in the Holland Marsh (UBC Press, 2021). Michael digs into the historical, social, and environmental processes that enabled the transformation of a wetland just north of Toronto into Ontario’s salad bowl. Highlighting contemporary issues in human-environment relations, this story has important lessons for farmland protection efforts. Michael also discusses how his work combines both research and advocacy for food system change.Photo courtesy of Michael Classens.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Gastronomica by becoming a member!Gastronomica is Powered by Simplecast.
Released:
Mar 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (45)
Krystyn R. Moon and Jennifer Rhode Ward on the Cultural Production of Taste in Cuban Foodways: Food scholars have found that notions of “good taste” often distinguish people based on class and social inequality. But how do people give meaning to food and taste in a socialist economy? Join host Jaclyn Rohel, a member of the Gastronomica Editorial Collective, as she talks with food historian Krystyn Moon and biologist Jennifer Rhode Ward about their new research on the complexities of taste, identity, and food access in Cuba. Krystyn and Jennifer shed light on why hierarchies of taste persist even amidst state attempts to flatten social hierarchies. Photograph courtesy of Jennifer Rhode Ward. by Gastronomica