Buffaloberry – A Super Fruit
Buffaloberry - A Super Fruit The buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensi), also known as bulberry, soopolallie, soapberry or foamberry, is a old/new [...]
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Aug, 26
Pickling Season
It’s Pickling Season Canadians love their pickles. Canada is one of the world's leading pickle consumers with consumption reaching roughly 80,000 [...]
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Aug, 26
Dill Pickle Soup
On recent travels through central Alberta, we kept noticing Dill Pickle Soup as the “soup of the day” in many [...]
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Aug, 26
Oregon Grape
Oregon Grape:A Traditional Food Plant Don’t be fooled by the name. The Oregon Grape is not a real grape. Oregon Grape [...]
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Jul, 26
Serving Up History in the Terrace Area – Book Review
Cookbooks as History or History as a Cookbook? There is a lot of interest in cookbooks as historical artifacts but the Terrace [...]
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Jul, 26
Sunbeam Frypan, circa 1960s
This is a story of “they don’t make them like they used to.” Meet my trusty old Sunbeam frypan that [...]
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Jul, 26
City Run Grocery Stores?
Every so often, food prices take a large leap in a way that is felt in many people’s pocketbooks. It [...]
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Jul, 26
July 7 is World Chocolate Day
It's a a good time to review these chocolate food history blogs! Chocolate – dream or nightmare? On Strike for “Fair” Chocolate [...]
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Jul, 26
Falkland History Through Recipes
From Grannies to Grandkids, Falkland History Through Recipes is a charming little community cook book, coil-bound, 84 pages, 170 recipes and a [...]
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Jun, 26
School Lunches
Meeting "at the corner" to walk the remaining quarter mile to school together. ca 1955. I subscribe to Blue [...]
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Jun, 26
Why is Seafood So Expensive?
Canada has the world's longest coastline and is surrounded by three oceans. Shouldn't local seafood be more accessible and be less [...]