Building the Alaska Highway
Building the Alaska Highway in 1942-43 included more than heavy equipment and Canadian-American collaboration. Food shortages and coping with family life [...]
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Feb, 22
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Jan, 22
Food Supply Chains
Food supply chains involve all levels of the economy. These days we hear about food supply chains in terms of obtaining [...]
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Jan, 22
HBC Gardens and Garden Seeds
HBC Gardens and Garden Seeds Everyone is thinking about garden seeds, or could be. In 2021 I set out to grow [...]
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Dec, 21
Creative Gifts from the Kitchen
Creative Gifts from the Kitchen The pandemic and supply chain issues have many people seeking out more personalized, thoughtful, homemade gifts. [...]
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Nov, 21
Quince
Quince Do you have any of these in your neighbourhood? At first glance you might think apple? Or pear? Both answers [...]
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Nov, 21
Chilliwack-Abbotsford Dairies
Chilliwack-Abbotsford Dairies The past week in Chilliwack has been a matter of hanging on every word of news about rivers rising, [...]
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Nov, 21
BC Recipes 1979
BC Recipes, 1979 It’s been forty-two years since one of the first recipe books attempting to define BC cuisine was published. [...]
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Nov, 21
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 [...]
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Nov, 21
Depression Recipes
Depression Recipes A recent request on the Culinary Historians of Canada facebook page for Depression-era recipes inspired me to write this [...]
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Oct, 21
Gellatly Nut Farm
Gellatly Nut Farm If you live in the Okanagan, you are probably familiar with Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park on Okanagan [...]