Chilliwack Corn Chilliwack corn is ready and this is a fact not to be ignored. It hit the market about a month ago and Chilliwack is now well into “corn season” with street-side corn stands everywhere! The season started late this year due to the weather but is now fully underway. Chilliwack is not a […]
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Pioneer Pudding and the Delights of Community Cookbooks
Pioneer Pudding and The Delights of Community Cookbooks When I turn to my collection of community cookbooks, there are so many possibilities to write a blog about but today I was drawn to “Pioneer Pudding”, written by the Tumbler Ridge Alliance Church in the 1980s. Community cookbooks often give us some history of the community. […]
John S. Deas – First BC Commercial Salmon Cannery
John S. Deas – First BC Commercial Salmon Cannery I’ve enjoyed many walks on the trails of Deas Island Regional Park but only recently learned that the Park took its name from John Sullivan Deas (1838 – 1880), a founder of the salmon canning industry in British Columbia. He started canning in 1871 and […]
Food Security in 1860s British Columbia
Food Security in 1860s British Columbia Lately I have been reading the Cariboo Sentinel newspaper from the late 1860s (https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/xcariboosen)[i] searching for information on a few historic characters I am researching. At the same time I have been drawn to articles about food of the time. From the mid 1860s up to 1871 was an […]
Chocolate – dream or nightmare
Chocolate – dream or nightmare Probably no food other than chocolate is as controversial, challenging and consequential. Ever since humans began to drink cocoa in the early days of Mayan society, there have been claims made for its health benefits. These many beneficial claims continue today, usually based on research funded by large chocolate companies.[i] […]
On Strike for “Fair” Chocolate
On Strike for “fair” Chocolate In the previous blog, I highlighted the irony that Carol Off considered in her book Bitter Chocolate[i] and the vast distance she described between the hand that picks the cocoa and the hand that picks the chocolate bar from the store shelf in our community. In both cases the hands […]
Love that chocolate…
By Linda Peterat on February 9, 2020 in BC food businesses, Innovations and Inventions in Food History
Love That Chocolate… Love that chocolate? Here we are in February also known as a chocolate month and the month of love. How did this association happen and what should we know about the widespread current passion for chocolate? These are some of the questions I’ll explore in February’s blogs and re-visit some writings on […]
Food from home to the war front
Food From Home to the War Front Food was one way that Canadians at home could support their troops overseas, either by rationing or economizing or sending care packages. A previous post described War Cake, popular during both World Wars I and II and modified in peacetime. It stores and travels well, remaining moist and […]
Canadian Stew and War Cake
Canadian Stew and War Cake What makes stew “Canadian”? Why was the name of War Cake in the First World War changed to Eggless Spice Cake in the Second World War? An extensive collection of military rations and cooking in Baird and Wranich’s book Recipes for Victory features almost 150 pages of recipes drawn from […]
What’s Making Food History – 11/03/19
Hazelnuts – also known as filberts… a local Fraser Valley food that’s making a comeback. https://www.cbc.ca › hazelnut-farming-rebirth-fraser-valley-bc-1.5344557