Nabob Foods Home Service Nabob Foods Home Services department produced cook books, spice charts, and other educational materials until the 1970s. Consumers who sent in 25 cents and labels from four different Nabob products would receive “Time-honoured Recipes of the Canadian West”, all selected by Jean White, Director of the Nabob Home Services Department. In […]
Author Archive | Mary Leah de Zwart
Photobook – Our Home, Our Food, Our Resilience
Photoboook – Our Home, Our Food, Our Resilience by guest blogger Meagan Curtis As we go deeper into the 21st century, increasing numbers of researchers are asking questions about the trajectory of our food system. Issues abound – from nutrition, land ownership and rights, supply chain economics, to production methods – all are being analyzed […]
Nabob Foods
Nabob Foods Nabob Foods is a BC company! This surprising fact was brought to our attention in a recent Culinary Historians of Canada post. The next couple of blogs will focus on the rise, fall and rise again of Nabob. In 1896 Nabob Foods was founded by Robert Kelly and Frank Douglas in Vancouver, BC […]
What’s Making Food History – March 7, 2021
What’s Making Food History – 27 February 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/united-cookbook-farm-women-alberta-1.5162168
Heat retention cooking
Heat Retention Cooking What would you do if the utility grid went down? How would you cook the food that might be spoiling in your freezer? What if you’re out camping and the propane bottle is almost empty? Cooking food by regular means, whether on an open fire or any other heat source – is […]
What’s Making Food History – 17/02/21
A new and possibly controversial discussion for BCFHN: thanks to KB in Winnipeg for keeping us informed! Hard butter issues raise questions
What’s Making Food History
Today is Pancake Tuesday. Making pancakes is a life skill for COVID times. Pancake Tuesday
Learning Canadian Ways
Learning Canadian Ways The lives of Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) and Alice Ravenhill (1859-1954) spanned two centuries and two continents. They each left successful careers in England to forge new lives in what they thought was the Canadian wilderness. Traill immigrated to Peterborough, Ontario in 1833, and Ravenhill to Shawnigan Lake, BC in 1910. They […]
What’s Making Food History – January 7, 2021
Tofu Revolution How Canada’s Tofu Revolution Began in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside | MONTECRISTO (montecristomagazine.com)