Food History Posts
Ontario Picnics
A celebration of dining in the outdoors from new book ONTARIO PICNICS.
Arab Cooking on a Prairie Homestead
"Salloum’s book helps us remember what being Canadian means, that we have always been a pluralist nation."
YUM! Janis Thiessen on Canadian Snack Food
Hawkins Cheezies, anybody? Yes, please!
Lindy Mechefske: Food Stories Are Our Stories—and Our History, Too
The author of Sir John's Table on why food stories are so important to our understanding of the past—and the future.
The Forgotten Parts of Food Culture: Unpaid Labour and Drudgery
A food historian explores his grandmother's cookbooks for clues about her everyday life.
Sarah Elton: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Canadian Farmers' Markets
What's old is new again in the age of the 100 Mile Diet.