AnthroDish

We're going to try launching season 8... again. In this solo episode, I go into more detail about a burnout I experienced last year, how I got in my head about "failing" as a podcaster, and honouring my late brother through my creative work. I only almost cried once in it.  Links:  Website: https://www.anthrodish.com/ Newsletter: https://sarahduignan.substack.com/ Instagram: @anthrodishpodcast Tik...

Whenever I watch a baking show, or a movie that has a really delicious looking food scene, I'm always blown away by the type of story that you can tell just through video and images of food. What exactly does it take to create these visions of food looking so delectable, despite there being no sense of smell associated with them? And what happens when the cameras stop rolling and the food is no lo...

Welcome to Season 8! It has been far too long and I am really excited to be back behind the old mic bringing you all new interviews this season. I am so grateful for the conversations that I've had so far for this season, and have some more planned that I am really looking forward to sharing with you. True to any season launch for AnthroDish, I'm going to give you a breakdown of all the reasons wh...

We started off this season looking at just how much Canadians wasted food, and how food systems management can be used to tackle this from a research based perspective. But the realities of how to navigate food waste, and the chain from supplier to consumer get a bit more murky. So how can it be done? This week, I'm chatting with Monique Chan, who is working on a solution through her company, Brui...

I'm someone who normally doesn't stop to take a breath and appreciate everything I've done, but I wanted to take a moment this week to celebrate AnthroDish hitting 100 EPISODES!  I'm so excited that we've made it this far together, I can't thank you all enough for tuning in over the years, bringing in your expertise and your questions to make this journey even more dynamic than I could have possib...

This week's episode feels particularly special and close to home for me – because it kinda is! This marks my first episode getting to connect with someone from my hometown of Peterborough, Ontario. During the first year of the pandemic, I moved back to Peterborough to be closer to family while managing my daughter's online schooling. It was a really difficult choice for me, because I had a lot of...

The idea of food security has been around for quite some time, but never manages to grasp the full complexity and nuances of what it means to secure foods, or what foods are the most culturally appropriate and nourishing. And in turn, efforts to assist those facing food insecurity quite often miss the mark in making cultural food easier to reach. And with increased regional lockdowns and the signi...

With every new year, we get absolutely bombarded by diet ads, fitness discounts, gym memberships (even if gyms are closed during lockdowns), and constant messaging about what our bodies are worth. Even when expected, it's incredibly overwhelming. So how can we practice more conscious language and information sharing about our bodies, foods, and diet cultures online? This week, I am chatting with A...

By now, we've all heard the jokes about how millennials can't afford to buy homes because we spend all our money on avocado toast, and have felt the generational divides around class, race, and gender through these prolonged boomer analogies with food. But when you put the jokes aside, a complicated picture of why younger generations care so much about food starts to arise. My guest this week, Eve...

When we think about COVID, we usually think about the short term health effects and terrifying stories from the ICU. However, there's a lot to learn about the ways that long haul COVID symptoms affect people. Those that experience long term symptoms are sometimes referred to as "long haulers" on Twitter threads, and you don't see much covered about their health challenges across the media. But wit...

Today's episode marks a big first for me! This is the first time I've been able to have a guest return for a second episode, which I'm so thrilled about. This week, Trina Moyles is back! If you're a longtime listener, you may remember her from AnthroDish's first season, where she spoke about the global experiences of women farmers from her beautiful Women Who Dig debut book. This week, we're havin...

Here at AnthroDish, a lot of the focus in my conversations with people is around the eating behaviours of communities, or what food preparations say about individuals… but we don't often get to think about what their food waste behaviours say about them. So what influences how people waste foods? Why do we have so many memes about that half empty and wilted bin of wilted spinach at the back of our...

It took a while, but I'm back for the 7th season of AnthroDish! Starting off as usual with a solo episode, giving some quick updates about what's been going on since season 6 wrapped in March 2021, some huge personal changes (I'm finally a Doctor!), and some reflections on what sorts of energy and themes I'm bringing in this season.  Regular interview episodes will be back as of next Tuesday, and...

Something we've been focusing on this season is unpacking what makes food accessible or inaccessible – be it money, gender, race, or their intersections. Veganism is an arena where there is a lot of time-consuming and money-draining products, and particularly so when a lot of discussions around how to be vegan are white-centered. My guest this week, Sam Turnbull, works to bust the myths around veg...

If you grew up in the early 2000s, you might remember the American push for True Love Waits, abstinence only-sex education, and purity rings being sported by celebrities like Jessica Simpson or the Jonas Brothers. Known as Purity Culture, this Protestant evangelical movement emphasizes sexual purity through abstinence… but beyond sex, how has the culture shaped how women understand their bodies, e...

If there's one thing a lot of us have been doing since the start of COVID last spring, it's returning to our kitchens – sometimes to help us grieve, sometimes to find joy, and sometimes just for needed sustenance. But there's something about baking in particular that has re-emerged as an incredible source of joy and heart. My guest this week is Jerrod Blandino, and he is here to talk about how his...

What role does religion play in cultural attitudes and practices towards drinking alcohol? Is it possible to look at one element without accounting for the other? And how does gender inform how religious and cultural identities are understood or enforced?  My guest this week is Manvinder Gill, a researcher interested in the intersections of alcohol and Sikhi. She recently finished her MA in religi...

It's been a while since I've put out an episode, so I am extra excited to get these episodes rolling out again. These are a continuation of season 6 that got a bit de-railed after a provincial lockdown up here in Ontario. Today, we're back on our regular interviews, and this one is an episode I've been SO pumped to share since the moment we sat down for this talk. When we talk about the food syste...

Today's interview is really special for me to share with you all, because my guest is someone I've formed a really wonderful friendship with through the podcast community – I'm fairly certain we connected through one of my former guests, Trina Moyles – and being able to sit with her today after years of both of us growing our work and cheering each other on means a lot. So! Now that I've set the s...

We've seen food media really start to crack when grappling this summer with who can cook what, and for who. The power that recipe production and food media has on flattening complex marginalized identities into harmful stereotypes while white chefs appropriate cultural dishes for their own prestige has become a much bigger conversation. But how does the idea of authenticity shape power and privile...

We've talked on the show before about how there are a lot of really white-centric connotations around the idea of "Canadian" food – a lot of people say there's no such thing as Canadian food, or joke about poutine… and those whitewashing tactics in our food landscape are woven in more insidious ways into the fabrics of how nutrition and dietetics are taught and understood. My guest today is Gurnee...

The phrase "dude food" likely brings to mind a range of very specific images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal, crazed sports fans demolishing radioactively hot wings, barbecued or bacon wrapped…anything. But there is SO much more to the phenomenon of dude food than how outrageous the plate looks. My guest this week, Dr. Emi...

With much attention finally being paid to sexual harassment and labour issues within the restaurant industries, it's easy to view restaurant and food culture simply as being rooted in misogyny and patriarchy. But there are many feminist restaurant and coffeehouse spaces, some incredibly long standing, that serve to really challenge the structures and spaces we operate in. So what does a feminist c...

Today is our first real episode of the 6th season! Thank you all for joining me here today, it really means the world to share these conversations with you, and especially so when we're all living in these very difficult new realities and a changed world, that you take the time to tune in. My guest this week is Carolyn Davenport-Moncel. Carolyn is an American expat and Chicago native, who wears ma...

This episode kicks off the brand new 6th season for AnthroDish! Tune in to hear some reflections from Sarah on where the show is going, and tackling some issues and discomforts while growing the podcast audience and community. Full interview episodes start next Tuesday!