BC Food History
Cooking and Food Preparation
About twenty years ago I collected tried-and-true recipes from home ec. teachers throughout the province and published them in the Teachers [...]
Vernon Applesauce Fruit Cake might become a tradition for me. It joins a wide number of recipes named after cities and [...]
Canadian Cake for the trenches - aka War Cake is a unique recipe that reflects rationing and resourcefulness. A few months [...]
Two current events have inspired me to write about sourdough. The first was a wonderful article in the Vancouver Sun "Farm [...]
Cake for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge? The news this week that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are scheduled [...]
Queen Elizabeth II was born April 21, 1926. She became Queen on February 6, 1952 and was crowned on June 2, [...]
Reader’s Choice” – An Example of the Historical Significance of Sharing Recipes Contributed by Gale Smith From the 1930s to [...]
Are cookbooks going out of style? Nowadays people are more likely to turn to the Internet for recipes, if they cook [...]
My Mother's Recipe Box The recipe box my mother kept her recipe collection smelled like lard and the bulk of the [...]
Nanaimo bars are a true BC contribution to culinary arts. According to Wikipedia, the first reasonable Nanaimo-bar-like recipe that appeared in [...]
