Community Cookbook Analysis – “Personal Recipes”
Community Cookbook Analysis - "Personal Recipes" - All Saints Anglican Church, Vernon, BC Old cookbooks are endlessly fascinating. They cause us [...]
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A Locavore in 1877: Indigenous Foods in G.M. Dawson Journals 1877-78
A Locavore in 1877: Indigenous Foods in G.M. Dawson Journals 1877-78 The word locavore, meaning a person whose diet consists only [...]
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Apr, 19
Indigenous Food Practices 1875-76
Indigenous Food Practices 1875-76 The careful observations of an early geologist in British Columbia provide a unique window into how BC's [...]
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Jan, 19
Book review – Freshly Picked
Book review - Freshly Picked by Jane Reid In Freshly Picked, Jane Reid’s goal is to help us better understand the [...]
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Jan, 19
Women and Okanagan-Shuswap Dairies
Contented cows at Craster Dairy, Lavington, BC Women and Okanagan-Shuswap Dairies Laura Rose, author and dairy instructor at Ontario [...]
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Jan, 19
Decolonizing Our Table: Indigenous Food Sovereignty Kama? Creative Aboriginal Arts Collective
An exhibit everyone should see and worth driving a long distance for, now on at Vernon Public Art Gallery (www.vernonpublicartgallery.com): Decolonizing [...]
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Jan, 19
Snacks
Snacks by Janis Thiessen Janis Thiessen will make you re-think snacks and the class snobbery that blames them for an array [...]
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Jan, 19
Okanagan Dairy
Okanagan Dairy Searching for information on the North Okanagan Creamery Association (N.O.C.A.) led to finding a huge collection of information[i] and [...]
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Oct, 18
Post-War marketing of BC apples
Post-War Marketing of BC Apples Marketing of British Columbia apples in the 1950s and 1960s took a new turn. Gone were [...]
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Oct, 18
Apples and Patriotism
Apples and Patriotism In the previous blog I looked at a couple of small apple recipe booklets – one published in [...]