BC Food History
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 [...]
"Sweet Spot - The Doukhobor Jam-Making Enterprise" is the first article in a five part historical series by Jonathan Kalmakoff, in [...]
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 [...]
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)
Soda Water in BC Drink Thorpe's Soda - BC Provincial Archives As food history researchers we never know what [...]
"It's that comfort of connecting to heritage or connecting to a living thing, a microorganism like yeast...." - CBC News April 6, [...]
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.
Basic Cooking Skills Basic cooking skills never go out of date. "Our grandmothers and mothers [sic] learned how to cook by [...]
Kraft Dinner - empty shelves and shopping advice https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/a-single-factory-is-now-working-24-7-to-keep-kraft-dinner-on-grocery-shelves-1.4862199 Happy World Home Economics Day!It's easy to make your own [...]
The Easter Ham was a tradition in my family. Neither 12-foot drifts, 75 mile-an-hour winds, or the prospect of having to [...]