Culinaria Research Centre Toronto

The Culinaria Research Centre, the hub for food studies at the University of Toronto, is a multidisciplinary centre that blends research excellence with community engagement and student (graduate and undergraduate) research experience.

Our projects provide new insights into some of the major questions of the field of food studies: The place of food in cultural identity and expression; the relationship between food, diaspora, and inter-ethnic/inter-cultural contact in Canada and beyond; commodity production and labours, from slavery to the age of empire to the present-day; the links between food systems, health, gender, and family.

Food is a source of identity – we define ourselves in what we eat. This is particularly true in the diverse foodscape of Toronto and its Scarborough neighbourhoods. In conjunction with the larger project of City Food, our collaboration begins a long-term and longitudinal study of the foodways of our neighbourhoods, combining GIS mapping, archival development, digital presentation, and culinary ethnography.

WHAT WE DO

We host seminar series, conferences, postdocs, visiting scholars, and speakers. We encourage engagement between the University of Toronto and the community as well as collaboration between scholars. We support research projects and classroom innovation.

MISSION

‘Culinaria’, as the name of our centre and our intellectual intervention, represents new directions in the field of food studies. The core academic mission of the centre is to unite scholars with related interests and encourage dialogue and partnership with a range of stakeholders. In so doing, we will provide new opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students while advancing leading-edge research.

CONTACT US

The Culinaria Research Centre is located in the Science Wing buildingOpens an external site in a new window of the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus: Office: Room SW 312 Teaching Kitchen Lab: Room SW 313

University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, Ontario 
M1C 1A4 
Canada

For general inquiries, please contact: culinaria.utsc@utoronto.ca or call us at 416-208-8175. Please note that emailing is preferred at present.  

Our Summer 2022 office hours are Tuesdays-Fridays - 8:45 am to 5:00pm.

Follow us on TwitterOpens an external site in a new window and FacebookOpens an external site in a new window.