Ethel Mulvany: Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook The taste of longing: Ethel Mulvany and her starving prisoners of war cookbook (2020) was written by Suzanne Evans, who holds a PhD in Religious Studies and is a former Research Fellow at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The Taste of Longing demonstrates how living in our imaginations […]
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Book Review – Street Farm
Book Review – Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier by Michael Ableman (2016). Chelsea Green Publishing. I found this book on BC Ferries before the COVID 19 pandemic and I just finally got around to reading it. It was the perfect feel-good read for lockdown times. Street Farm is a heartwarming tale […]
Book Review – Chop Suey Nation
Book Review: Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories From Canada’s Chinese Restaurants, by Ann Hui, Douglas and McIntyre, 2019. Ann Hui is a food reporter for the Globe and Mail. She writes about her fascination with Chinese Canadian cuisine, sometimes called “chop suey” cuisine or in her family, “fake” Chinese food. […]
Recipes for Victory
Recipes for Victory Every November our thoughts turn to Remembrance Day and the role food has played during wartime over the years. In 2018, Elizabeth Baird and Bridget Wranich released Recipes for Victory, a collection of recipes and research papers that were part of a 2014 Great War Food Symposium organized at the Fort York […]
Garden Eats and Treats – Intergenerational Gardening
Garden Eats and Treats Written by Linda Peterat and Jan Hillis This small coil bound recipe book is written for parents, teachers, and anyone who gardens with or would like to garden with children. The recipes in this book were developed for or used in two Intergenerational Landed Learning Projects – one at UBC Farm […]
Book review – Freshly Picked
Book review – Freshly Picked by Jane Reid In Freshly Picked, Jane Reid’s goal is to help us better understand the food crops grown in BC – where food grows, when it’s available fresh, and ways of preparing and enjoying it. The book is organized according to Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter and each section […]
Snacks
Snacks by Janis Thiessen Janis Thiessen will make you re-think snacks and the class snobbery that blames them for an array of health problems and obesity. She begins by admitting that she loves potato chips and grew up in a family that regularly purchased pop and a variety of candy and processed snack foods. Thiessen […]
Freshly Picked Book Review
Freshly Picked: A Locavore’s Love Affair with BC’s Bounty. Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press I can always count on BC Ferries to introduce me to new BC titles. On a recent trip I picked up a delightful read by Whistler resident, Jane Reid. Some of you may be familiar with her work from articles in […]
Review of Susan Musgrave’s A Taste of Haida Gwaii
At 374 pages, A taste of Haida Gwaii, food gathering and feasting at the edge of the world by Susan Musgrave is a hefty, heavy book. It’s a book for reading and enjoying that will make you want to book a trip soon to Haida Gwaii. It has a helpful map of the islands in the front, […]
A Fruitful Century – Book Review
Dendy, David & Kyle, Kathleen (1990). A fruitful century, The British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association 1889 – 1989. Kelowna, BC: British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association. This book was written to celebrate 100 years of the British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association and their role in promoting orchards and fruit production in BC along with representing the […]