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Nancy's Wedding Feast

by (author) Yvonne C. Leverte & James O. St. Clair

Publisher
Cape Breton University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2007
Category
Social History
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897009222
    Publish Date
    Sep 2007
    List Price
    $23.95

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Description

Food and memory are the recipes of shared experience. Together they conjure the richness of oral tradition evoking the time and place where stories are told—the smells of kitchens, the sense of remembering what brings us together, what is preserved and what remains to be made.

We are what we eat. In the act of cooking and eating we fashion the past inside the kitchens of the present. Food and the stories it evokes reveal the state of a place, the ethics of caring, the distribution of wealth, the sense of possibility, the ingredients of stories—of hardship, class, ingenuity, diversity, nature, invention, celebration, the elite and everyday.

Herein are 14 of Kim St. Clair’s tastiest historical narratives, each accompanied by recipes that complete the tales—expertly researched and selected by Chef Yvonne LeVert to give us the full flavor of Cape Breton’s rich and varied cultural palate.

About the authors

Yvonne LeVert is a Cordon Bleu chef in Sydney. Both are long-time CBC Cape Breton columnists.

Yvonne C. Leverte's profile page

Jim St.Clair is a historian from Inverness County.

James O. St. Clair's profile page