JUST EATS
Stories of food, identity, and resistance
What is Just Eats?
Food is never just food. More than just nutrients and calories, food represents identities, opportunities, histories, power, and oppression.
Just Eats is a research project that seeks to amplify the work of racialized folks in Canada who endeavour to use food as a tool of anti-racism and anti-colonialism. In Canada, we usually use diversity of food as an analogy for our multicultural society but the Canadian food system was made possible through the colonization of Indigenous Peoples and the Lands they continue to steward. In order to address growing food insecurity, racism, health disparities, and environmental degradation in Canada, we need to recognize food as the first fight. It’s time to disentangle the food stories told on Canadian plates.
Where can I listen?
Listen to Just Eats on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Episode 1: The Politics of Alcohol with Change is Brewing
In our opening episode, we chat with the Change is Brewing Collective in Nova Scotia about how racism operates in the craft brewing industry; and, how they are working to change it for the better.
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Episode 2: Indigenous Food Perspectives
In this episode we chat with chefs Scott Iserhoff and Zach Keeshig about their approaches to food and the kitchen. Then we talk to Dr. Spencer Greening about Indigenous understandings of the ecosystem, food harvesting, and climate degradation.
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Episode 3: Chinese Food – No longer just a stepping stone
In this episode we met up with Chef Eva Chin and Colin Li, owner of Hong Shing, to talk about the history of Chinese foods and restaurants in Canada.
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Episode 4: Part I – Black Food Histories in Canada
In part 1 of this 2-part series on Black foodways, we met with Bernice Byers-Arsenault and Beatrice Wilkins at the Africville Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We learned about life and the abundance of food that they enjoyed while living in the Black settlement of Africville before the city dispersed their community. We also chatted about the story behind their cookbook, “In the Africville Kitchen: The comforts of home.”
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Episode 5: Part II – Black Canadian Food Futures
In this episode, we met up with Wendie Wilson in Nova Scotia, a food activist and community organizer, to learn more about Black food stories in Nova Scotia. We then travelled to Edmonton to connect with Rochelle Ignacio to learn about her initiatives in Black owned businesses and Feed the Soul YEG.
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Episode 6: Re-Prioritizing Food with Joshna Maharaj
In this episode, we chatted with chef, author, educator, and activist Joshna Maharaj at her home in Toronto, Ontario. She talked to us about how she ended up in the kitchen and how important food is to our entire social system.
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Episode 7: Anti-Racism and Food – A conversation with chefs Eva Chin & Joshna Maharaj
This episode is a live recording of our podcast launch event at Queen’s University on October 29th, 2024 with Joshna Maharaj and Eva Chin. They tackle big questions about how structural racism manifests and how we can move towards a more anti-racist food system in Canada.
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