Hard Butter Issues Raise Questions
A new and possibly controversial discussion for BCFHN: thanks to KB in Winnipeg for keeping us informed! https://www.producer.com/news/hard-butter-issues-raise-questions/ [...]
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Feb, 21
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Feb, 21
Pancake Tuesday during Covid
Today is Pancake Tuesday. Making pancakes is a life skill for COVID times. https://bcfoodhistory.ca/pancake-tuesday/
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Feb, 21
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 [...]
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Jan, 21
Canada’s Tofu Revolution
Tofu Revolution How Canada’s Tofu Revolution Began in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside | MONTECRISTO (montecristomagazine.com)
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Dec, 20
Cod liver oil
Cod Liver Oil Sixty years ago, school children in Alberta and BC (and likely in other provinces) were given doses of [...]
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Dec, 20
China Lily Soy Sauce Shortage
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/china-lily-shortage-1.5817336
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Nov, 20
Boomtown Butcher Shops
Boomtown Butcher Shops Business was booming in BC from the 1890s up to the Great War. Two butcher shops opened in [...]
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Nov, 20
Ethel Mulvany Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook
Ethel Mulvany: Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook The taste of longing: Ethel Mulvany and her starving prisoners of war cookbook (2020) [...]
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Oct, 20
Fusion foods and innovations
Some people will dispute where these foods originate, but at least some of them are Canadian inventions. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/foods-from-canada
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Sep, 20
Grindrod Garlic Festival
The first ever Virtual Grindrod Garlic Festival. Historic on so many counts. On til September 15, 2020. https://grindrodgarlicfestival.ca/schedule-of-events