Food History Posts
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Ontario Picnics
A celebration of dining in the outdoors from new book ONTARIO PICNICS.
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Arab Cooking on a Prairie Homestead
"Salloum’s book helps us remember what being Canadian means, that we have always been a pluralist nation."
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YUM! Janis Thiessen on Canadian Snack Food
Hawkins Cheezies, anybody? Yes, please!
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Lindy Mechefske: Food Stories Are Our Stories—and Our History, Too
The author of Sir John's Table on why food stories are so important to our understanding of the past—and the future.
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The Forgotten Parts of Food Culture: Unpaid Labour and Drudgery
A food historian explores his grandmother's cookbooks for clues about her everyday life.
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Sarah Elton: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Canadian Farmers' Markets
What's old is new again in the age of the 100 Mile Diet.