anytime i get a podcast guest pitch from a food product company, i let them know my policy is not doing any interviews with food product spokespeople, but i’d be happy to consider a podcast advertisement collaboration or social media campaign. and everytime they say no, only affirming my policy.

nothing like the prime minister of canada essentially confirming we’re abandoning climate targets to support oil and gas while citizens are getting evacuated out of raging forest fire zones. happy canada day i guess

being postpartum when algorithms are promoting appetite suppressing drugs and fitness influencers that think egg whites for everything is healthy/sustainable endeavour has been a bitch! on the newsletter this week i wrote about the body as a moral value sarahduignan.substack.com/p/two-years-...

Reading magazines right now is like 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 TK in the age of ozempic 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 everyone you know is getting botox without you 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

walking to school with my daughter this morning, i had to have a very serious conversation about how she’s officially at the age, as a canadian, where she needs to know the difference between calling someone bud and buddy

regularly reminded i could never be a content creator, but especially after watching a “get ready with me to have my bloodwork drawn” video. i spent the first ten years of my life with weekly bloodwork and would never dream of bringing a camera along to document that illness experience

petition to officially change “nails on a chalkboard” to “nails on an influencer’s aluminum can used for content creation”

i just want to scream into the abyss about the fitness world’s current hyperfixation on caloric deficits

This weekend, @lapanique.bsky.social wrote a lament re the shuttering of yet another Toronto icon. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

i’ll never get over glossy pieces about tinned veg and fish having “moments” when that has forever and always been the foods that were affordable and stable for food banks, and for those of us who have grappled with poverty and food insecurity at points in our lives

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For Best Food Blog, I wrote about the rising number of parents using ChatGPT to help them cook, and what gets lost when optimization is prioritized at dinner www.bestfoodblog.net/when-chatgpt...

omg, i was just doing some stats-lite for an upcoming newsletter about my podcast, and it confirmed that since adding video social media promotions, average monthly downloads are up 72% from the last season of audio-only. turns out audiences really need faces before they trust to listen!

In confronting the politics of food and eating disorders with nuance and urgency, this dialogue challenges feminist narratives that overly simplify eating disorders as solely reactions to patriarchal beauty standards. With Amber Husain on @anthrodish.bsky.social

it bothers me a lot that the news tab of a google search bar is now so far removed behind ai mode, shopping, and short videos… especially when i’m trying to fact check something i saw on social media.

petition to find a better descriptor outside of “enshittification of”

on the newsletter i’m exploring a topic i used to assign in my second-year food anthropology courses: tiktok foods and their meaning and value. when recipes go viral, what do we lose?what happens to cultural knowledge, recipes as story and instruction? sarahduignan.substack.com/p/tiktok-foods

What happens when we frame food and eating as a question rather than an answer? In this week's episode of AnthroDish, I speak with writer Amber Husain about her unique approach to explore power and culture through collective appetites. Listen: www.anthrodish.com/episodes/amb... #foodwriting

canada is an unserious country in that there’s record breaking food insecurity and record breaking grocer profits the last six years, and yet we have people using their advocacy to push the house of commons for a “national butter tart day” #canpoli #foodinsecurity

What does "good food" look like in food policies? This week's episode with Isabela Bonnevera explores how immigrant women in B.C. navigate this, as "sustainability" doesn't always translate into diverse experiences. #foodpoli #canpoli #foodsecurity Listen! www.anthrodish.com/episodes/isa...

a minor chorus may not have won canada reads 2026 but my god Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers did so much to show to the nation how limited this competition is in its ability to have meaningful conversations about race, white privilege, and the state of truth & reconciliation #canpoli #canadareads

This week on the podcast, I speak with writer @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social about her new memoir, On Eating. We discuss her process for weaving personal & cultural histories of ingredients, and unpacking Western appetites through food labour considerations. Listen! www.anthrodish.com/episodes/ali...

doug ford and olivia chow having an omelette cookoff amidst new evidence that grocers are still price-fixing (now meat), and after laughing in the face of Grassy Narrows protestors is… something

I have to obsessively promote because (1) it’s not a debut (2) the media landscape only cares about celebrities or the very wealthy re: memoir

a topic very close to my heart on the newsletter this week, a deep dive on the mercury contamination at Grassy Narrows First Nation and the shameful mockery of this by Canadian leadership at a recent press conference. plz read & share #grassynarrows sarahduignan.substack.com/p/i-can-outl...

I wrote about the incoherence of MAHA when it comes to animals and the new ecofeminist writing providing a way toward clearer thinking. foodprint.org/blog/fates-o...

reading an audiobook about timefulness while my toddler kicks my jaw during a bedtime feeding 🙏🏻

While Texas is known for its cattle, corn, and cotton, its northern region has a hidden history of wheat cultivation. Dr. Rebecca Sharpless is on to speak to the robust wheat culture from the 1840s until WWII. @utexaspress.bsky.social Listen to the full episode: www.anthrodish.com/episodes/reb...

this laughter and joking at Grassy Narrows protestors truly made my stomach curdle. good on Chrissy Isaacs!

This week I speak with writer & cook TW Lim on notions of authenticity in Singaporean hawker centres as shifting political, economics, and cultural values shape labour and ability for hawker workers #hawkercentres listen here! www.anthrodish.com/episodes/202...

We are Ravenous — food media with teeth. Ravenous is worker-owned food and culture media company founded by @francesdoingthings.bsky.social, @aemccarthy.bsky.social, @jayasaxena.com, @shokdiesel.bsky.social, and @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social.

Very nice to see Hearty included in this CBC list — "10 Canadian books about food to spark conversation around the dinner table" www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...

I have a new article out through @americananthro.bsky.social News for their Defunded issue! It's looking at the power of government language bans and their repercussions on erasing health consequences for offshore oil drilling in America www.anthropology-news.org/articles/era...

What's the story behind the maple syrup mafia? How did Catholicism shape maple syrup production in Quebec? Is climate change shifting how syrup tastes? Check out my conversation with journalist Peter Kuitenbrouwer to learn more! #maplesyrup #canadianhistory www.anthrodish.com/episodes/pet...

It is entirely possible your grandmother was born in the 70s she knows what high fructose corn syrup is

i spent my entire phd and post doc and onward trying to get people to care about water as a human right and a public health service and i’m at the point where i just don’t know what it’ll take to get people invested. the proposed ontario government legislation apparently isn’t of enough concern

New ep with India Doris, co-owner and Executive Chef at Markette Restaurant (NYC). We talk about how her early fine dining days shaped her creation of the Markette menu by infusing autobiographical elements into dishes that reflect Caribbean histories & flavours. www.anthrodish.com/episodes/ind...

with every day that new policy from the ford government comes out i worry more and more for future generations. the water regulations proposed are only going to further hurt many communities and public water as a right

absolutely everyone has sent me that SNL irish dancer skit so i guess everyone still remembers me as that kid that did irish dance back in the day

I remember Dublin's food (~14a ago) and wanted to explore some of what's happening now for this week's St. Patrick's Day column. Got to with chefs Brian McCourt here and Padraic Flynn (a KW-boy!) in Co. Laois about the fantastic foodish things happening there. #Food #IrishFood #StPatricksDay

This week, talking with Jamie Tracey of Anti-Chef looking food disconnections in Canadian food landscapes, and being a self-taught cook sharing your highs and lows in front of the internet. #antichef #foodpodcast #canadianfood Listen here: www.anthrodish.com/episodes/jam...

new slow sunday habit includes yelling at the newspaper feature about nicotine pouches being risky for youth “SINCE WHEN HAS A GENERATION NOT DABBLED WITH NICTOTINE WHY ARENT WE GOING WITH HARM REDUCTION” like it’s 2026 why are we surprised/acting like abstinence only works!!!

Thrilled to have chef Leigh-Ann Martin on AnthroDish! I’ve long admired her approach to cooking and food writing. We explore her Trini upbringing, navigating personal & collective histories menus, & breaking down the myth of a singular Caribbean culinary foodway. www.anthrodish.com/episodes/lei...

i have a lot of feelings about publically engaged anthro but it’s wild to me that after all this time, major anthro institutions maintain their social media on X…

officially the month where i’m most self conscious about how much green i regularly wear and how many potato comments i get for it at work ☘️

slowly dipping my toes back into academic conferences so i must have hit my head or something. (to be fair, it’s only when it’s a good fit for applied anthropology work!)

New episode this week with the lovely Teresa Finney @atheartpanadera.bsky.social She speaks about her cottage bakery, ingredient sourcing, the relationship between baking & the body, and the role she sees bakers playing in serving their communities. #microbakery www.anthrodish.com/episodes/ter...

"Until recently, Canadians provided a critical lifeline by bringing medical supplies down to Cuba... it’s been painful telling my Cuban medical friends that Canada’s flights to Cuba have been stopped for several months — right when they need us most." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

one of my greatest paranoias as a podcaster is that i've accidentally missed a number in my episode titling

you can always tell how obsessed i am with a book if i mention it in three separate podcast interviews, which are thematically unrelated interviews lol. woops.