Heritage and Indigenous Foods
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 [...]
Heritage and Indigenous Foods
Wild Potatoes - Tsilhqot’in First Nation Photo of Chilko Lake, BC A few years ago I had the wonderful [...]
Cariboo Potatoes The Cariboo Potato is not a BC Heritage potato but it's applicable to BC Food History for [...]
Haida Potatoes After several years of living in a condo, my husband and I moved to a house with a yard [...]
Pemmican Empire A recent article about Chef Shane Chartrand poses the question “How can one claim to be Canadian and never [...]
Chop suey and ginger beef - Chinese Canadian cuisine? Almost all small Canadian towns have a Chinese restaurant. "Chop Suey Nation" [...]
Community Cookbook Analysis - "Personal Recipes" - All Saints Anglican Church, Vernon, BC Old cookbooks are endlessly fascinating. They cause us [...]
A Locavore in 1877: Indigenous Foods in G.M. Dawson Journals 1877-78 The word locavore, meaning a person whose diet consists only [...]
Indigenous Food Practices 1875-76 The careful observations of an early geologist in British Columbia provide a unique window into how BC's [...]
Chokecherries Years ago when I was teaching in Hazelton (Gitksan territory), I remember children coming to school in the fall with [...]
Elder flower blossom Elder Flowers have almost finished blooming in the Okanagan Valley but as you gain altitude up [...]