BC Studies Annotated Bibliography – Food History
For the past year one of the projects of the BC Food History Network has been to determine what has [...]
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May, 17
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Apr, 17
Spring Foraging – Stinging Nettles
Spring Foraging - Stinging Nettles For many people, when the winter snow and rains give way to spring, and new life [...]
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Apr, 17
Iconic BC foods
Recipes of British Columbia 1979 cover Iconic BC Foods Once in awhile the BC Food History Network gets asked [...]
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Apr, 17
White Spot – a BC legend
White Spot We were recently contacted by Laura Brehaut of the National Post who was doing an article on the allure [...]
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Jan, 17
Wok with Stephen Yan
Wok with Stephen Yan - How a Vancouver Restaurateur Made Wokking Accessible to All Stephen Yan, a Vancouver-based chef who moved [...]
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Jan, 17
Introducing Dr. Lenore Newman a Local Food Researcher
This week we introduce you to a fellow food researcher, Dr. Lenore Newman, who is currently Associate Professor of Geography at [...]
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Dec, 16
Japanese Mandarin Oranges
When I was growing up in the 1950s in north western British Columbia I can distinctly remember watching the newspaper at [...]
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Dec, 16
Candied and Glacé Fruits
Candied and glacé fruits have a place in food history to remind us of the days that a grocery store was [...]
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Dec, 16
Fruitcake and “Christmas Cake”
It's a bit of a mystery how fruitcake became “Christmas Cake”. Some historians trace fruitcake to cakes that were placed in [...]
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Oct, 16
Support your local museum – soil and sea at White Rock BC
Almost every local museum has some food-related material in their collection: from tractors and farm implements, to kitchen utensils and equipment, [...]