Book Review – Chop Suey Nation
Book Review: Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories From Canada’s Chinese Restaurants, by Ann Hui, Douglas and [...]
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May, 20
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May, 20
John S. Deas – First BC Commercial Salmon Cannery
John S. Deas - First BC Commercial Salmon Cannery I’ve enjoyed many walks on the trails of Deas Island Regional [...]
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May, 20
Food Security in 1860s British Columbia
Food Security in 1860s British Columbia Wake-up Jake - still a popular restaurant in Barkerville Lately I have been [...]
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Apr, 20
Supply management and the food supply chain
Supply management and the food supply chain cannot be taken lightly: history happens as we sit in self-isolation. The Conversation.com Why-farmers-are-dumping-milk-down-the-drain-and-letting-produce-rot-in-fields [...]
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Apr, 20
Sweet Spot – The Doukhobor Jam-Making Enterprise
"Sweet Spot - The Doukhobor Jam-Making Enterprise" is the first article in a five part historical series by Jonathan Kalmakoff, in [...]
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Apr, 20
A 200-year old flour mill near London, Ontario
https://lfpress.com/business/local-business/historic-mill-picks-up-flour-slack-from-empty-grocery-store-shelves A 200-year old flour mill near London, Ontario, has ramped up flour production since the pandemic lockdown began. (The link [...]
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Apr, 20
Thrifty meals for quarantine cooking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/04/15/heres-quarantine-cooking-advice-from-the-ogs-of-thrifty-meals-home-ec-teachers/ (Thanks to KB for this link)
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Apr, 20
Soda Water
Soda Water in BC Drink Thorpe's Soda - BC Provincial Archives As food history researchers we never know what [...]
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Apr, 20
Quarantine bread making
"It's that comfort of connecting to heritage or connecting to a living thing, a microorganism like yeast...." - CBC News April 6, [...]
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Mar, 20
Hand sanitizer facts
https://www.cbc.ca/news/covid-19-hand-sanitizer-fact-check-1.5510163 "Ethyl will thrill you but methyl will kill you"....... Thank you to KB for scouting this out.