“A Double-double and a Maple-glazed Doughnut”

This special issue of Food, Culture and Society celebrates the founding of the Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) by showcasing some of the best contemporary scholarship in Canadian food studies research. CAFS was conceived in the spring of 2005 to promote critical, interdisciplinary scholarship in the broad areas of food policy, production, distribution and consumption. As two of its founders, we were stunned—and thrilled—at the interest in this new academic association; seventy papers were presented at the first CAFS scholarly meeting in Toronto a year after its founding. It was clear to us that CAFS was an idea whose time had come. At the time of this writing, CAFS is planning its third conference, in Vancouver, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and anticipating full society membership in the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.