Enjoying Apples
Enjoying Apples It's apple harvest time in the Okanagan. The orchards are beautiful with ripe apples and the farmers’ markets offer [...]
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Sep, 18
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Jun, 18
Retro cooking 1958
BC Women's Institutes Centennial Cook Book I've been trying retro cooking from 1958 recently. Silver Star Mountain Resort, 22 [...]
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Jun, 18
Elder Flowers
Elder flower blossom Elder Flowers have almost finished blooming in the Okanagan Valley but as you gain altitude up [...]
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Jun, 18
1860s BC Mining Town Food
Mining towns such as Barkerville, BC presented a particular challenge for the provision of food for miners and others rushing into [...]
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May, 18
Review of Susan Musgrave’s A Taste of Haida Gwaii
Haida Gwaii Food Gathering and Feasting At 374 pages, A taste of Haida Gwaii, food gathering and feasting at [...]
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Apr, 18
Sun-Rype of Kelowna
“Deep roots, strong branches, the history of Sun-Rype” began as a memoir by Ian Greenwood who was a manager of new [...]
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Apr, 18
A Fruitful Century – Book Review
Dendy, David & Kyle, Kathleen (1990). A fruitful century, The British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association 1889 – 1989. Kelowna, BC: British [...]
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Mar, 18
Selling BC Apples
It was challenging to sell BC apples in the 1930s. In 1931, based on data from 1926 to 1930, British Columbia led [...]
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Mar, 18
A Case for Retro Recipes
Many of the recipes that I enjoyed in my childhood and youth now fall under the category of "retro recipes". Recently [...]
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Mar, 18
“Let’s Serve Canned Salmon”
"Let's Serve Canned Salmon" was a recipe booklet promoting BC canned salmon developed by the Home Economics Section, Department of Fisheries, [...]