Pumpkins
Pumpkins have been grown on the North American continent for at least 7500 years. Only recently did they become associated with [...]
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Oct, 16
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Sep, 16
Chinese Fairy Tale Feasts
Chinese Fairy Tale Feasts Chinese fairy tale feasts, a literary cookbook. Yee, Paul, Chan, Judy, & Wang, Shaoli (2014). Chinese fairy [...]
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Sep, 16
Sourdough Starter
Two current events have inspired me to write about sourdough. The first was a wonderful article in the Vancouver Sun "Farm [...]
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Sep, 16
Hop farming is coming back
Hops are an essential ingredient in Canadian beer along with water, barley and yeast, and hop farms are coming back to [...]
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Aug, 16
Fall Fairs
Fall fairs have been a community tradition since the concept of agricultural fairs was brought to Canada by the early British [...]
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Aug, 16
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Cake
Cake for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge? The news this week that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are scheduled [...]
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Aug, 16
Macs are Rolling
When I attended elementary school in Manitoba in the 1950s, our grade 4 or 5 reader was Wide Open Windows (Copp [...]
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Aug, 16
Queen Elizabeth Cake
Queen Elizabeth II was born April 21, 1926. She became Queen on February 6, 1952 and was crowned on June 2, [...]
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Aug, 16
Tea Time in the 1940s
Recently I went for afternoon tea at a heritage house that claimed to serve tea as it would have been in [...]
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Jul, 16
Growing BC Garlic
This has been a very good year for growing garlic in the North Okanagan – enough moisture but not too [...]