Wartime Food November 11, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I (more properly known as the Great War until it was superseded by WW II). Over the past two years the BC Food History Network has featured several articles concerned with wartime food. There were two […]
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Apples and Patriotism
Apples and Patriotism In the previous blog I looked at a couple of small apple recipe booklets – one published in 1914 that was dedicated to the “patriotic housewives of Canada,” and one published a couple of decades later that concluded with the message “Serve apples daily and you serve your country too.” When the […]
Meat Rationing in World War II
I was going through an old button box the other day when I came across this: Not knowing what it was, I had to do a little research. It turns out that it is a meat ration token from World War II produced by the Canadian Government. People who lived through the war years in […]
Canadian War Cake
Canadian Cake for the trenches – aka War Cake is a unique recipe that reflects rationing and resourcefulness. A few months ago a friend loaned me her grandmother’s cookbook, all hand written and begun in 1905 in Glasgow, Scotland. Included in the book was a recipe for Canadian War Cake. War Cake seems to have […]
Virus-Free Potatoes
Virus-Free Potatoes Pemberton potatoes are virus-free. The geographic isolation of the Pemberton Valley, one hour north of Whistler, has made it a world-wide source of virus-free seed potatoes that will protect future generations from potato famines such as the Irish Hunger Famine of the 1840s. The blight that destroyed crops overnight and caused at least […]