Heritage and Indigenous Foods
Savory Rhubarb
Savory Rhubarb Cakes, crisps, crumbles, muffins, pies - tart and sour stalks of rhubarb have long provided a tangy, citrus-like [...]
Savory Rhubarb Cakes, crisps, crumbles, muffins, pies - tart and sour stalks of rhubarb have long provided a tangy, citrus-like [...]
Growing rhubarb Rhubarb - Pigeon Lake, Alberta - photo contributed Rhubarb thrives across Canada from the Atlantic to the [...]
Misunderstood Rhubarb. A vegetable treated like a fruit. Understated. What do you know about it? Try this quick quiz (T/F). Bright [...]
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 applicable to BC Food History for its name and its history of being grown in [...]
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 [...]