Decolonizing the Foods Lab: Is Monkey Bread[1] a Racist Term? Guest Blog by Madeline Wong, Home Economics Teacher, Surrey School District My students were not alone in asking the question, “Why is M***** Bread called M***** Bread?”. With two new Food Studies 12 classes for Semester 2, we were just in time to celebrate Black History […]
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What’s Making Food History – Gem canning lids- February 14, 2022
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Trucks and Food Shortages Alaska Highway
Trucks, food shortages and coping with life were all part of building the Alaska Highway in 1942-43 when the US and Canada collaborated on this epic project under threat of war. The following excerpt from a family history, written by Anne Seierstad, shows how it was like in Dawson Creek, British Columbia for the eight […]
Food Supply Chains
By Mary Leah de Zwart on January 22, 2022 in Food Processing and Marketing, Heritage and Indigenous Foods
Food supply chains involve all levels of the economy. These days we hear about food supply chains in terms of obtaining imported out of season foods, but the concept also applies to maintaining food sufficiency and security. I remember seeing a “For Better or Worse” comic strip by Lynn Johnston, where her protagonist Elly Patterson […]
Garden Seeds
I’m thinking about garden seeds. Last year (2021) I set out to grow vegetables that might have been grown in a Hudson Bay Company post garden at the 53rd/54th parallel and above. The growing season in Edmonton and area is short and intense, around 100 – 120 frost-free days (or less) between May 15 […]
What’s Making Food History 29/12/21
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Depression Recipes
Depression Recipes A recent request on the Culinary Historians of Canada facebook page for Depression-era recipes inspired me to write this post about thrifty foods of Western Canada (and possibly other parts of Canada as well), during the Great Depression of the “Dirty Thirties” (as my mother called the years between 1929 and 1939). Some […]
Past Posts about Preserving Fruits and Vegetables
Past Posts about Preserving Fruits and Vegetables BC Food History Network has many posts about preserving fruits and vegetables. Here are links to a few. Search the BC Food History Network site for more posts. Chokecherries Preserving and Canning in Food History Buffaloberry – A Super Fruit Elder Flowers Candied and Glacé Fruits
What’s Making Food History August 8, 2021
Amazing 1,300-Year-Old Technology Found Hidden in Comox Harbour
Jan Peskett Nabob Foods
Jan Peskett – Nabob Foods Jan Peskett was the first and last person to fill the role of Jean White, home economist for Nabob Foods. The pseudonym of Jean White joins other home economics business personalities in BC, including Edith Adams and Penny Wise. Peskett started to work at Nabob shortly after her 1966 […]