Heritage and Indigenous Foods
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Jan, 22
HBC Gardens and Garden Seeds
HBC Gardens and Garden Seeds Everyone is thinking about garden seeds, or could be. In 2021 I set out to grow [...]
13
Dec, 21
Creative Gifts from the Kitchen
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
Hazelnuts When people who are trying to “eat local” or use various versions of regional diets ask “What to do about [...]
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Jul, 20
Salal Jelly
Salal Jelly How to make salal jelly continues a BCFHN blog from May of 2018 on the topic of salal, https://bcfoodhistory.ca/salal/. [...]
13
Jul, 20
Pine Mushrooms
Pine Mushrooms Pine mushrooms provide a source of income in various parts of British Columbia from August to November. This summer, [...]
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Jun, 20
Savory Rhubarb
Savory Rhubarb Cakes, crisps, crumbles, muffins, pies - tart and sour stalks of rhubarb have long provided a tangy, citrus-like [...]
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Jun, 20
Growing Rhubarb
Growing rhubarb Rhubarb - Pigeon Lake, Alberta - photo contributed Rhubarb thrives across Canada from the Atlantic to the [...]
10
Jun, 20
Misunderstood Rhubarb
Misunderstood Rhubarb. A vegetable treated like a fruit. Understated. What do you know about it? Try this quick quiz (T/F). Bright [...]
3
Jul, 19
Wild Potatoes – Tsilhqot’in First Nation
Wild Potatoes - Tsilhqot’in First Nation Photo of Chilko Lake, BC A few years ago I had the wonderful [...]
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Jun, 19
Cariboo Potatoes
Cariboo Potatoes The Cariboo Potato is applicable to BC Food History for its name and its history of being grown in [...]