Heritage and Indigenous Foods Archives - The British Columbia Food History Network

17 Nov, 24

What’s Making Food History -Scurvy- November 17 2024

By Mary Leah de Zwart|2024-11-17T20:35:12-07:00November 17, 2024|Food Politics, Heritage and Indigenous Foods, What's Making Food History|

https://globalnews.ca/news/10872233/la-ronge-doctors-scurvy-diagnoses-food-insecurity/ Scurvey in first nations communities

16 Feb, 24

Quinoa, Trendy Ancient Food

By Linda Peterat|2024-04-30T09:29:10-07:00February 16, 2024|Agriculture, Heritage and Indigenous Foods|

Quinoa, Trendy Ancient Grain By Linda Peterat, BC Food History Network For the past decade, quinoa has been trendy because it [...]

5 Jan, 24

Pyrohy

By Linda Peterat|2024-05-13T10:11:36-07:00January 5, 2024|Budget, Cooking and Food Preparation, Food for Holidays and Special Occasions, Heritage and Indigenous Foods|

Pyrohy Comfort Food and Celebratory Dish By Linda Peterat Around my dinner table I recently asked my guests what food traditions [...]

8 Mar, 23

Ulu – Women’s Knife

By BC Food History Network|2024-05-13T10:13:04-07:00March 8, 2023|Heritage and Indigenous Foods, Innovations and Inventions Related to Food|

Ulu – Women’s Knife Note* This post was compiled from previous writing by Dr. Marlene Atleo and Dr. Mary Gale Smith [...]

23 Feb, 23

What’s Making Food History – Ozette Potatoes

By M. Gale Smith|2024-05-13T10:15:05-07:00February 23, 2023|Heritage and Indigenous Foods, What's Making Food History|

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ozette-potato-harvest-indigenous-food-sovereignty-1.6601755

6 Nov, 22

Squash-Pumpkin Family
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Squash-Pumpkin Family

Agriculture, Heritage and Indigenous Foods

Squash-Pumpkin Family

By Mary Leah de Zwart|2024-10-25T17:31:02-07:00November 6, 2022|Agriculture, Heritage and Indigenous Foods|

Squash – Pumpkin Family is misunderstand and underrated. All of the Cucurbitale botanical order originated in Indigenous cultures in the Americas. [...]

22 Jan, 22

Food Supply Chains
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Food Supply Chains

Food Processing and Marketing, Heritage and Indigenous Foods

Food Supply Chains

By Mary Leah de Zwart|2022-09-17T12:41:05-07:00January 22, 2022|Food Processing and Marketing, Heritage and Indigenous Foods|

Food supply chains involve all levels of the economy. These days we hear about food supply chains in terms of obtaining [...]

13 Dec, 21

Creative Gifts from the Kitchen
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Creative Gifts from the Kitchen

Food for Holidays and Special Occasions, Heritage and Indigenous Foods

Creative Gifts from the Kitchen

By M. Gale Smith|2022-09-17T12:44:54-07:00December 13, 2021|Food for Holidays and Special Occasions, Heritage and Indigenous Foods|

Creative Gifts from the Kitchen The pandemic and supply chain issues have many people seeking out more personalized, thoughtful, homemade gifts. [...]

20 Apr, 21

Hazelnuts

By M. Gale Smith|2024-12-03T15:34:21-07:00April 20, 2021|Agriculture, Heritage and Indigenous Foods|

Hazelnuts When people who are trying to “eat local” or use various versions of regional diets ask “What to do about [...]

25 Jul, 20

Salal Jelly

By M. Gale Smith|2021-05-26T13:56:21-07:00July 25, 2020|Heritage and Indigenous Foods|

Salal Jelly How to make salal jelly continues a BCFHN blog from May of 2018 on the topic of salal, https://bcfoodhistory.ca/salal/. [...]