Food History Inquiry Pandemic Projects
Food History Inquiry Pandemic Projects The potential for using the study of food is often overlooked in education. Yet food is [...]
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Jan, 21
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Jan, 21
Newspaper Recipes 1878
Newspaper Recipes 1878 In an earlier post I shared a recipe for butter making and how to re-store aged butter. https://bcfoodhistory.ca/butter-first-bc-newspaper-recipe/ [...]
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Dec, 20
UBC Food Group: Cinnamon Buns, Ponderosa Cake and more
UBC Food Group: Cinnamon Buns, Ponderosa Cake and more. There is something about the short cool days of December that turns [...]
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Dec, 20
Christmas cheer
Christmas Cheer Here we are past the first week of December and Christmas is very present in my house. The tree [...]
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Dec, 20
Cod liver oil
Cod Liver Oil Sixty years ago, school children in Alberta and BC (and likely in other provinces) were given doses of [...]
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Dec, 20
China Lily Soy Sauce Shortage
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/china-lily-shortage-1.5817336
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Nov, 20
Boomtown Butcher Shops
Boomtown Butcher Shops Business was booming in BC from the 1890s up to the Great War. Two butcher shops opened in [...]
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Nov, 20
Ethel Mulvany Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook
Ethel Mulvany: Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook The taste of longing: Ethel Mulvany and her starving prisoners of war cookbook (2020) [...]
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Oct, 20
Halloween Tricks and Treats
Halloween Tricks and Treats There is a lot of discussion these days about whether or not Halloween will be celebrated in [...]
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Oct, 20
edible Vancouver & Wine Cuontry
It may be worth noting the October/November issue of Edible Vancouver & Wine Country online: https://ediblevancouver.ediblecommunities.com/about-us/digital-editions-2 Two articles are of interest: page 34 [...]