BC Recipes, 1979 It’s been forty-two years since one of the first recipe books attempting to define BC cuisine was published. It was titled This…is British Columbia: Recipes Through the Years and was a collaboration between Beautiful British Columbia magazine and the Ministry of Agriculture. You might have bought it for the amazing photographs of […]
War and Postwar Food
War and Post War Food The previous blog looked at Depression recipes, and recipes of the 1930s have similarities to recipes of the war years. Inexpensive cuts of meat and other ingredients, limited amounts of sugar, eggs and cream are some of the commonalities of both wartime and depression recipes. We have included several blogs […]
Depression Recipes
Depression Recipes A recent request on the Culinary Historians of Canada facebook page for Depression-era recipes inspired me to write this post about thrifty foods of Western Canada (and possibly other parts of Canada as well), during the Great Depression of the “Dirty Thirties” (as my mother called the years between 1929 and 1939). Some […]
Gellatly Nut Farm
Gellatly Nut Farm If you live in the Okanagan, you are probably familiar with Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park on Okanagan Lake in West Kelowna (Westbank). Fall is an ideal time to visit and you can harvest nuts that fall to the ground when they are ripe[i]. What you may not know is the Gellatly […]
Woodward’s Food Floor
By M. Gale Smith on September 15, 2021 in Food Processing and Marketing, Innovations and Inventions Related to Food
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, as a high school, then university student, working part time on Woodward’s Food Floor in Vancouver, in the late 1960s and early 70s. It is a little book (only 65 pages) of stories and […]
Past Posts about Preserving Fruits and Vegetables
Past Posts about Preserving Fruits and Vegetables BC Food History Network has many posts about preserving fruits and vegetables. Here are links to a few. Search the BC Food History Network site for more posts. Chokecherries Preserving and Canning in Food History Buffaloberry – A Super Fruit Elder Flowers Candied and Glacé Fruits
What’s Making Food History August 8, 2021
Amazing 1,300-Year-Old Technology Found Hidden in Comox Harbour
Butter – Early BC staple
Butter – An Early Staple We have had several past blogs about butter and I remain fascinated by it and its apparent importance during the settler years of the 1800s. One past blog was on butter making: https://bcfoodhistory.ca/butter-making/ In a second blog I claimed that “How to Make Butter in Five Minutes Without a Churn!” […]
Summer Strawberries
By Linda Peterat on June 7, 2021 in Food for Holidays and Special Occasions, Food Processing and Marketing
Summer Strawberries Before the end of May, the strawberry stands opened along the roads in Chilliwack and now we are well into the peak season. It’s an exciting moment when the first strawberry stand opens. There is anticipation of the delicious flavour and assurance that summer has indeed arrived! In an earlier blog, […]
Jan Peskett Nabob Foods
Jan Peskett – Nabob Foods Jan Peskett was the first and last person to fill the role of Jean White, home economist for Nabob Foods. The pseudonym of Jean White joins other home economics business personalities in BC, including Edith Adams and Penny Wise. Peskett started to work at Nabob shortly after her 1966 […]