i’m a food & health anthropologist from toronto

AnthroDish, my podcast about food, culture, and health, has been nominated for the 2025 Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding News and Current Affairs Series. It is regularly in the Top 5 Anthropology Podcasts on Goodpods. My biweekly newsletter, AnthroDish Essays, also explores food and health trends with this anthropological perspective.

My food writing has appeared in The Conversation Canada, Feminist Food Journal, kitchen work magazine, and chlorophyll magazine, and republished in Salon, Huffington Post Quebec, and The National Post. As a food and health expert, I have been featured on CBC Radio, Yahoo News, The National Observer, The Preserve Journal, Sliced by Fed, and other news outlets.

I am one of the co-founders of a new collective of women food writers, Feminist Food Friends, where we host online workshops to explore collaborative approaches to working in food spheres.

I received my medical anthropology PhD in 2021 from McMaster University, exploring the relationships between food, water, and gendered health experiences with a First Nation community in Ontario. This work was published in Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World (Elsevier Press, 2022), Social Science & Medicine and other scientific journals. I have taught food anthropology at McMaster University and the University of Manitoba, Indigenous studies at Centennial College, and guest lectured at various universities across Canada.

Before studying contemporary food and health, I was a bioarchaeologist, exploring the lived health and dietary experiences through bone and tooth analysis in Belize, Denmark, and Nova Scotia. Our work in Nova Scotia won a 2019 Parks Canada CEO Award of Excellence for our team’s work in establishing an unprecedented bioarchaeology field program at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site.

My literary agent is Rob Firing at Transatlantic Agency. My film agent is Nigel Hetherington at Past Preservers.