Mystery Kitchen Objects
Mystery Kitchen Objects Almost every local museum has food-related objects in their collections. These range from tractors and farm implements, to [...]
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Jan, 24
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Mar, 23
Ulu – Women’s Knife
Ulu – Women’s Knife Note* This post was compiled from previous writing by Dr. Marlene Atleo and Dr. Mary Gale Smith [...]
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Jan, 23
Tupperware – a success story
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Sep, 21
Woodward’s Food Floor
Woodward's Food Floor I recently reviewed Food Floor: My Woodward’s Days by Margaret Cadwaladr[i]. It's a memoir of the author’s experiences, [...]
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Feb, 20
Automatic Toasters
Automatic Toasters Automatic toasters ensured more people ate toast for breakfast. A recent survey found that one out of four Canadians [...]
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Jan, 20
Food Grinders
Food Grinders Home Food Grinder An image of a Home Food Grinder recently surfaced on the internet, with the [...]
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Jul, 19
Cook Stoves for BC
In the period between 1858 when the gold rush and early settlement began in British Columbia and 1887 when the first [...]
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Jul, 19
Cook Stoves, Woman Granted First Patent
Our blogs usually focus on British Columbia food history but the fact that the first patent granted to a woman in [...]
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Jul, 19
Cook Stove Revolution of the 1800s
I bought a new cook stove recently. It displays all the latest technological, in this case digital, innovations of the current [...]
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Sep, 18
The Egg Carton Invented in BC
The Egg Carton Invented in BC As this promotional ad indicates, the egg carton was invented in BC[I] It started in [...]